Itinerary
DAY 1 – ARRIVAL DAY
Welcome to Uzbekistan. Make your way to the meeting point where your driver will meet you and take you to the hotel. Check in opens at 4:00 pm. After check in, you’ve got some free time to settle in. In the evening, meet your guide for an information and welcome session. Your guide will explain what’s in store for the tour, the current weather, run through equipment and answer any questions you have. Then join your guide for dinner at one of the local restaurants. It’s a great opportunity to get to know everyone on tour as most guests are travelling solo.
DAY 2 – SIGHTSEEING IN TASHKENT, DRIVE TO CHIMGAN
After breakfast check out of the hotel. This morning you will spend the day exploring Tashkent, the capital, with your guide. The city was once the fourth-largest city in the entire USSR. It’s a wild and chaotic mess of socialist-era mosaics, imposing monuments and memorials, modernist concrete patterns, meandering street markets, and richly decorated metro stations. You’ll visit a huge bazaar where traders offer everything from clothing, fur hats and sultanic robes to electronic accessories from the founding era of mobile phones and fake football shirts. Stallholders seduce with fragrant spices piled into pyramids and stacks of pita bread, while women hawk cottage cheese and cream cheese in large plastic laundry bowls.
In the afternoon you’ll transfer by bus to your hotel in Chimgan. This is your base for the bulk of the trip. On arrival, check in to the hotel, unpack and set-up your equipment for the adventure ahead. Then join the crew for dinner at the hotel.
DAY 3 TO 8 – RIDING IN CHIMGAN REGION
You’ll spend the next 6 days riding the surrounding resorts of
Amirsoy, Beldersay and Chimgan. The tour itinerary is flexible so you can ride at the best resort on the day. Your guide will monitor conditions to ensure you’re scoring the best conditions as weather and snowfall affect each resort differently. Each day will follow a similar format:
Mornings – Enjoy breakfast at your leisure. Your guide will advise the departure time the evening before, which is typically around 8:00 am. Each morning your guide will explain the weather and snow conditions for the day and advise the group where you’ll be riding. Load up the van and drive to the resort.
Throughout the day – Once at the resort the aim is to spend a full day on-mountain. Your guide will take the guess-work out of it and give you a locals' perspective from day one. The plan for each day is different and you will do a combination of resort and backcountry riding accessed by lifts.
Evenings – On return to the hotel, you’ve got free time. Head to the hotel spa or sauna to relax, grab a drink in the lobby bar, or hang out with the crew. In the evenings join the crew for dinner before turning in for the night.
DAY 9 – SAMARKAND DAY TRIP
Check out of the hotel, load the van and the group will be dropped at the train station with your guide to take the high-speed Afrosiyob Express train to Samarkand. Samarkand was founded in around 700 BC, and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a crossroads of cultures and a hub of learning and trading, especially during the heyday of the ancient Silk Road which passed through the city. A visit here is a non-negotiable for any Uzbekistan tour. You’ll spend the day exploring the varied sights, including ancient mosques, mausoleums and madrassas.
After sightseeing, take the train back to Tashkent and check in to your hotel for the final night. Join your guide for the final night dinner at one of the traditional restaurants.
DAY 10 – DEPARTURE DAY
Breakfast at the hotel, followed by check out. All good things must come to come to an end, and after a big week of riding, your guide will drop you back at the airport and say goodbye.
Arrival and Departure Days
As part of the tour, airport transfers are included. If you are unable to arrive and depart as per times below, you will need to make your own travel arrangements to/from the airport to your accommodation at your own cost.
Transfers may be subject to delays. Mint Tours is not able to hold or delay any shuttles and is not responsible for missed flights, connections, transfers or costs incurred for alternative replacement transportation. Passengers are responsible to be admissible to Uzbekistan.
Arrival day:
Arrival Airport: Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport (TAS)
Meeting Time: We recommend arriving in the afternoon or evening for this trip.
Note - The best flight options are via Dubai or Istanbul.
Departure day:
Departure Airport: Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport (TAS)
Departure time: We will transfer you to the airport based on your flight schedule.