Kunya Urgench in Turkmenistan (from Nukus or Khiva)

Kunya Urgench in Turkmenistan (from Nukus or Khiva)

Description

Day 1.
Drive from Nukus to Kunya Urgench via Khodjieli border point.

On arrival in Kunya-Urgench we will have a chance to take a close look at outstanding monuments of the medieval Khorezm.

We will visit the 14 century mausoleum of Turabek Hanum, minaret of Kutlug Timur, a former highest minaret of Central Asia that used to form a part of the main cathedral mosque of the city; mausoleum of Sultan Tekesh, a beautiful 12 century mausoleum with one of the earliest portals of the east and a unique cone of a dome; Kyrk-Mollah mound, the fabled al-Mamun’s Academy of Sciences; and mausoleum of Il-Arslan, a tiny precursor of unique Khorezmian mausoleums with a pyramidal cone as its dome.

Drive back to Nukus or Khiva.