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In 1999, a year after leaving Edinburgh University, Alexandra Tolstoy handed in her notice at an investment bank and rode, with three friends, along the Silk Road. The trip took them into Central Asia and China, through the lush valleys of Uzbekistan and across the relentlessly hot and empty Taklamakan desert.
"To me Samarkand conjures up more romance than Paris or Rome ever could," Alexandra observes, of a city that was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, sacked by Genghis Khan 1,500 years later, made a capital by Tamerlane in the fourteenth century, and through which almost all the colorful Chinese caravans passed, giving the Silk Road its exotic reputation.
"The Last Secrets of the Silk Road" is divided into two sections, the first taken up with Central Asia and the women's horseback travels, the second with China, evidently a less romantic experience for them all, as their horses were swapped for truculent camels and the physical charm of their guides greatly diminished.
They had numerous guides accompanying them, as well as a back-up crew who would set up camp and prepare supper for their arrival at the end of each day. Guides and crew undertook all practicalities, including shoeing and doctoring of the horses.
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Roxana Tour offers the following services:
- Ordering and booking of hotel (group and individual orders).
- Meeting at the airport and accompaning in hotel.
- Transportation services.
- Air tickets booking.
- Group and individual excursion programs in the cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and all other cities of Uzbekistan.
Roxana Tour offers delightful tours around Uzbekistan:
- Silk Road tours around the ancient cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Termez and others.
- Pilgrimage tours around the sacred places in Bukhara, Samarkand, Nurata, Tashkent.
- Zoroastrianism tours.
- Extreme tours: heli-ski, heli-boarding, free-ride, rafting, rock-climbing, trekking, mountain bike, bike-riding tours, fishing, hunting.
- Jeep-safari tours.
- Camel tours, with a night in the heart of the Kyzyl-Kum Desert.
- Wedding tours.
- Ornithology (birds) and entomology (insects) tours.
- Photo-video-tours.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Email: travel@roxanatour.com
Telephone: +99890 176 98 83
Roxana Tour Co.
Usmon Nosir 128 bld 8
Tashkent,
Uzbekistan
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