First date with Tashkent-Love at first sight
The tour will begin at your hotel. As we move on to our first object, you will get general information about the city, learn how it became the capital. In the northern part of Tashkent we will visit the memorial complex built in the Islamic architectural style, where we will see the blue domes, Khiva ornaments and carved irrigation terracotta. Let’s admire the Tashkent TV tower - the highest in Central Asia.
Near the tower, flames are lit under the cauldrons of the Plova Center. Having visited it, you will see how prepare pilaf in giant kazan, which in a few hours will be eaten by thousands of guests and residents of the capital.
We will look at the white marble mosque Minor, you will learn about the Tashkent earthquake at the monument «Courage», and then, passing the Anhor Canal, we will go to the Old City.
In the old part of the city I will show the complex Hast-Imam - a religious, spiritual center of Tashkent. Here are medieval mausoleums, madrasahs and mosques. We will walk through the narrow streets of the makhallas (quarter). In the maze of these streets, between the clay walls, you will be imbued with the spirit of the East, you will see the houses of people who are very friendly and always welcome guests.
Do not forget about lunch - we will eat pilaf or other dishes of Uzbek cuisine.
After visiting the bazaar Chorsu. Supermarket it is not a competitor! At the bazaar of truth, at the bazaar boils life. Tashkent people like to bargain: bargaining gives them pleasure in defending a price that seems fair to them. At this bazaar you can buy almost anything - just had the strength to pass it. Show you where you can buy inexpensively many good souvenirs, dried fruits and spices.
Having said goodbye to the bazaar, we will go to the central areas of the city, drive near the square «Friendship of Peoples» and visit the modern Tashkent City.
After Tashkent became one of the major cities of the Russian Empire in 1865, the kind of narrow streets and the layout of neighborhoods did not come to like the new authority. It was decided to build a new city. On the left bank of Anhor, following the latest architectural fashion, a new city was built, with a radial-ring system of roads, with squares, churches, gymnasiums and theatres. Many of those buildings have survived, we’ll see.
In 1899, the railway was extended to Tashkent. This gave a big boost to industrial growth, and also contributed to the inflow of specialists from different cities of the Russian Empire. During the famine of the 1920s, many people came here, who were saved from a difficult time. That’s when the saying was born: Tashkent - a city of bread.
During World War II factories and factories, schools and institutes, film studios and theaters were evacuated to Tashkent. Anna Akhmatova, Korney Chukovsky, Alexey Tolstoy and many other outstanding writers, figures of science and art lived at that time in Tashkent.
In the new part of the city we will stop at the Opera and Ballet Theatre, and then we will walk on «Broadway» to the square of Amir Timur.
Visiting several stations of the Tashkent metro will decorate our excursion - it will be an excellent completion.
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