Explore the Silk Road on a 21-day adventure through the Five Stans, from mountain lakes and canyons to legendary cities and a night beside the Darvaza gas crater.
  • Witness Kok Boru and horseback wrestling at Tokmok stadium.
  • Descend Charyn Canyon’s Valley of Castles to the river.
  • Walk to glacial Hazorchashma at Tajikistan’s Seven Lakes.
  • Discover Samarkand’s Registan, Gur Emir, and the Shah-i-Zinda necropolis.
  • Wander Bukhara’s trading domes, Kalyan Minaret, and the Ark citadel.
  • Explore Khiva’s mosques, tombs, and palaces in the Old Citadel.
  • Witness the blazing Darvaza Gas Crater deep in the Karakum.
Stay in a mix of comfortable city hotels and authentic local lodgings: Freedom Hotel, Kazzhol and Shumon Hotels; guesthouses like Kemin and Reina Kench; a twin-share yurt camp on Lake Issyk Kul with western toilets and cold showers; simple desert camping at Darvaza; plus hotels in Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva.