Private tour — price per person depends on group size:
| 1 traveler | $575 / person |
| 2 travelers | $370 / person |
| 3 travelers | $290 / person |
| 4 travelers | $250 / person |
| 5 travelers | $225 / person |
| 6 travelers | $205 / person |
Three days between Samarkand and Bukhara, spent almost entirely in the Nuratau mountains rather than on the highway.
You sleep the first night in Hayat and the second in Asraf — two villages on opposite sides of a ridge — and walk between them on day two, about 12 km via Ukhum with a mountain guide. Your luggage goes round by road.
Day three drops out of the hills and stops at Nurata: the Chashma holy spring, a suzani workshop, and the hilltop ruins of the Nur fortress, attributed to Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. You reach Bukhara mid-afternoon.
Pickup at 09:00 from your Samarkand hotel and the drive north to Hayat village, arriving for lunch.
Day two is the walk — roughly 12 km from Hayat over to Asraf via Ukhum, with a local mountain guide. Your bags travel by car.
One night in each village, with the families. All meals are home-cooked and eaten together.
Day three leaves the hills via Nurata — holy spring, suzani workshop, Alexander's fortress — and reaches Bukhara by mid-afternoon.
Pickup with luggage and the drive north into the Nuratau foothills.
Arrive in Hayat, settle in with your host family and eat lunch.
An easy walk around Hayat — orchards, irrigation channels, and the ridges you will cross tomorrow.
Dinner with the host family.
Breakfast before the walk.
The main walk of the trip: roughly 12 km over the ridge, through Ukhum and down into Asraf, with a local mountain guide. Moderate, with steady climbs and long views.
Arrive in Asraf and settle in with a second host family.
Dinner with your hosts.
A last breakfast in the mountains.
Down out of the hills and west towards Nurata.
The Chashma holy spring with its sacred carp and old mosque, a suzani embroidery workshop, and the hilltop ruins of the Nur fortress — attributed to Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
Across the steppe to Bukhara.
Drop-off at your Bukhara hotel, mid-afternoon.
A shorter round trip from Samarkand with one homestay night and an afternoon hike.
The same mountains plus a night in a desert yurt camp on Aydarkul lake.
The same Samarkand to Bukhara idea, sleeping in a desert yurt camp instead.