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Turkey To Start Construction Of "iron Silk Road"

ANKARA - Turkey will initiate construction of 76-kilometer part of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project which is known as "Iron Silk Road". Turkey's Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim told AA on Monday that the construction of the part on Turkish soil would start in the end of May or beginning of June.

Yildirim said that the tender for the project had been held in September 2007, and Celikler-Ozgun construction group won the tender for nearly 290 million YTL.

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He said that the project, which had a strategic and economic importance for Turkey, would be completed in three years.

Turkey has reserved 380 million YTL for construction of its own part in the project which will turn historical Silk Road into "Iron Silk Road".

Georgia will construct the 29-kilometer part from Turkish border to Ahilkelek and also rehabilitate the existing railway from Ahilkelek to Tbilisi. Ground-breaking ceremony of Georgia's part was held on November 21st, 2007.

The whole project is targeted to be completed by 2010.

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Also when Marmaray Project (Marmaray Rail Tube Tunnel and Commuter Rail Mass Transit System) in Istanbul Strait is completed besides Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project, it will be possible to transport freight by railway from Europe to China without interruption. Thus, all freight transportation between Europe and Central Asia will be made by railway. (1 USD = 1.29 YTL)

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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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Silk Road Today

Silk Road today is one of the most attractive tourist routes. It is much due to the revival of Silk Road that the mankind have got the access to the global heritage of different nations who for thousands of years lived along this great transnational arterial road and who formed and matured their varied cultural wealth. Silk Road is assigned to the World's Tourism Organisation, which today is implementing long-term tourism project aimed at promotion of tourism in this region.