Tour to fortress Ayaz kala in Uzbekistan. 

«The life is a long route, each time in new district»

 Mauri Karl.

The short description of route of tour across Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan:

Nukus - settlement Hodzheili - necropolis Mizdakhan - fortress Gyaur kala - tower Chilpyk - reserve Badai Tugai - necropolis Sultan Uvays - ancient settlement Toprak kala - fortress Ayaz kala - Kurgashin kala - town Kungrad - settlement Muynak - plateau Ustyurt - lake Sudochye - settlement Hodzheili - town Nukus.

Distance of the route: 873 km.
Season: from April 20 to till September, 30th.
The best time for tour: April, May, June, September.
Duration of the tour: 5 days, 4 nights.

Detailed the program day by day from Nukus to Muynak and fortresse in Karakalpakstan:

Tour to town Nukus.

Day 1. Town Nukus - settlement Hodzheili - town Nukus (26 km).
Arrival in Nukus. Meeting at the airport, transfer to hotel, accommodation in the hotel. Sightseeing tour on town Nukus, visiting of museum of arts by I.V.Savitskogo. In museum there are fine masterpieces of painting of artists Rafael Matevosyn and Faim Madgazin, esoteric to Aral sea and Southern Priaralye.
Transfer to settlement Hodzheili (24 km). Visit of archeologic complex Mizdakhan (X - XIV c.с.), caravanserai White khanaka, visiting of the medieval mausoleums - Nazlumkhan sulu, Shamun Nabi, madrasah Khalva Erezhep.
Transfer on antique fortress Gyaur kala (II - IV c.с.) (2 km), visit and walk on fortress. Returning to Nukus, transfer to hotel, dinner and overnight.
Day 2. Nukus - fortress Ayz kala (190 km).
Breakfast. Transfer: Nukus - tower Chilpyk (Tower Silence) (III - VIII с.с. and X - XIV с.с.) (50 km). Arrival to tower Chilpyk, walks in vicinities of monument, rise on tower.
Transfer: tower Chilpyk - ruins of site of ancient settlement Dzhanpyk kala (I - II с.с and IX - XIV с.с.) (53 km). Arrival on site of ancient settlement Dzhanpyk kala. Walks in vicinities of site of ancient settlement, photographing of fortifications, search of archeologic artefacts in vicinities of site of ancient settlement. Near to site of ancient settlement Dzhanpyk kala there is biospheric reserve Badai Tugai, walk ot reserve.
Transfer: biospheric reserve Badai Tugai - necropolis Sultan Uvays (XIII - XIV с.с.) (33 km). Arrival on necropolis Sultan Uvays (town Dead), visit of necropolis, visiting of mausoleum Sultan Uvais bobo, photographing of town Dead. Visiting of local market before necropolis Sultan Uvays. Lunch on way.
Transfer: necropolis Sultan Uvays - ancient site of ancient settlement Toprak kala (III - IV с.с. B.C.) (20 km). Arrival on site of ancient settlement Toprak kala. Walks in vicinities of ancient city on fortifications, photographing of ruins of antiquities.
Transfer: site of ancient settlement Toprak kala - yurt camp «Ayaz kala» (35 km). Arrival in yurt camp «Ayaz kala», accommodation in yurts, dinner, rest and overnight.
Day 3. Fortress Ayaz Kala - settlement Muynak (393 km).
Breakfast. After breakfast excursion on fortress Ayaz Kala (1 km). Arrival on fortress Ayaz Kala, walk on vicinities of ancient fortress, photographing of fortifications of ancient city. From height of fortification the panorama on second fortress Ayza Kala opens.
Transfer to fortress Ayaz Kala-II (3 km). Arrival on fortress Ayaz Kala-II, walk on vicinities of an ancient fortress, photographing of fortifications.
Transfer: Fortress Ayaz Kala-II - ancient settlement Kyrkyz Kala (16 km). Arrival on site of ancient settlement Kyrkyz Kala, walk on vicinities of an ancient fortress, photographing of fortifications.
Transfer: Kyrkyz Kala - ancient settlement Kurgashin Kala (14 km). Arrival on site of ancient settlement Kurgashin Kala, walk on vicinities of ancient fortress, photographing of fortifications.
Transfer: Kurgashin Kala - town Nukus (186 km). Lunch in local cafe.
Transfer: Nukus - town Kungrad - settlement Shagyrlak - settlement Muyak (207 km). Arrival in Muinak, transfer to hotel, accommodation. Visiting of local museum esoteric to Aral sea and local monument - to ship "Buinyi" Aral flotilla on pedestal at rural khakimyat. Transfer on Cemetery of ships of the Uzbek Aral flotilla at memorable obelisk «Tragedy of Aral sea», at former coast of Aral sea.
Trip to settlement Uchsai (16 km). Walk on settlement. Returning in Muynak, dinner, rest and overnight. 
Day 4. Settlement Muynak - settlement Urga (90 km).
Breakfast. Departure from hotel at 7.30. Transfer: Muynak - settlement of Uchsay - bottom of the dried Aral Sea - Ustyurt plateau - lake Sudochye - settlement Urga (90 km). Plateau Ustyurt are located to the West from lake Sudochye. Walk along canyons of Ustyurt, walk in vicinities of the western extremity of lake Sudochye, photographing of unique picturesque canyons and terrestrial breaks. Settlement Urga has been based in beginning of XX century.
During Soviet times here sent in the reference of Old Believers, in the beginning of 50-s' years the fishing state farm with the population in some tens hundreds inhabitants here has been based. In settlement there was club, post office. Last inhabitant has left from settlement per 1971. Now here there lives small of fishermen which by old tradition fish. Visiting of Russian cemetery on surburb of old settlement of fishermen. Overnight in tents on coast of lake Sudochye.
Day 5. Lake Sudochye - town Nukus (174 km).
Breakfast. After breakfast transfer: lake Sudochye - town of Nukus. Arrival in Nukus, transfer to the airport, departure to Tashkent.

Note:
Author program is Alexander Petrov. Copying and introduction -  from the sanction of the author  petrovsra@mail.ru

Alexander Petrov
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