Types and places in Uzbekistan

Continuing from Previous Blog Uzbekistan Airways

1- Wildlife areas in the desert and other attractions on nomadic ways:

The most famous desert in Uzbekistan is fauna of Kyzyl Kum having many rare kinds of animals. There is a Kyzyl Kum nature reserve at the flood land engineered by the Amu-Darya. Another reserve is located 40 km to the south of Bukhara known as Djeyran.

The region of the Aydar Lake is an area of active forms of tourism such as fishing, yurting and camel back riding activities.

If we talk about water store of Kyzyl Kum, there are several kinds of water birds migrating from Siberia that make their homes around the lake for the time being. Many species of fish were artificially populated to the Aydar lake, which nowadays fulfilling the requirements of fishing industry.

The Sarmish Gorge is also generating tourist’s attraction towards southern part of the Karatau mountain range, which are 30–40 km to the north-east of the historical city of Navoi in Uzbekistan. This place is famous for various active forms of tourism activity and ancient monuments of anthropogenic activity engaging the area of about 20 km². The site enhance  old settlements, flint quarries, mines, burial mounds, crypts and petroglyphs, including monuments of the middle age civilization, even stone age, early iron age, and bronze age . There are more than 4,000 petroglyphs still present in Sarmishsay. Since ones this territory has been a sacred zone due to ancients, where locals performed their sacred ceremonies on holy days.

2- Religious tourism:

Due to religious based interest a large number of tourists have been visiting Uzbekistan. There are followers of Sufism in all over the world they know that many of historical sites such as Sheihantaur, Mausoleum of Sheikh Zaynudin Bobo, and Mausoleum of Zangiata in Tashkent or Bayan-Quli Khan Mausoleum, Bakhauddin Ensemble, Saif ed-Din Bokharzi Mausoleum and many others monuments in Bukhara are related to Sufism. Which attracts Muslim tourists from all over the world? Uzbekistan is a country with fundamental Islamic roots. However, there are also minority of Nestorian Christians co-existed.

The first Baptist congregations in Uzbekistan were started at the end of the 19th century at older town near Tashkent, most of the population consisted of the migrated people from Russian Empire. Where more than 160 Muslim relics are located.

Accessibility of the country:

There are one international airport in Tashkent, three railway station and several buss stations which entertains the local and international tourists most of the tourists come in and move out from Tashkent which is capital of Uzbekistan the air companies operating there are, Uzbekistan Airways, Korean Air, Air Baltic, Asiana Airlines, TurkishAirlines, Transaero, Aeroflot, Czech airlines, Iran air, air Astana, S7 airlines. There are many other local airports in Uzbekistan such as Namangan airport, Namangan, Anzizhan airport Andizhan, Fergana Airport Fergana and Nukus Airport Nukus. Uzbekistan is landlocked country so there is no ocean route to access Uzbekistan.