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Of course, Uzbekistan isn't
Europe, but that's what makes it interesting!
When you plan to go to
Uzbekistan
as a tourist, it is very important to realize what you expect to receive there.
Once when a local guide was talking to some tourist from Switzerland, the guide
diffidently said, "Yes Uzbekistan is not Europe! ..." What did he mean by that?
Probably that Europe is better, more organized, more convenient... and so on.
Most likely, yes the tour guide had an inferiority complex about his own
country. However, the tourist with a nice smile replied, "But that's what makes
it interesting!"
Therefore, there is no question what is better Uzbekistan or any of other
countries worldwide. Uzbekistan differs from them in its originality. If
European goes on a tour to Uzbekistan, expecting to find here Europe, he makes
big mistake and surely will not be satisfied. Seek Uzbekistan; this is the key
to your satisfaction, when you go there!
What makes Uzbekistan
interesting?
Uzbekistan is a country with vast underused capabilities in
tourism.
Tourist activities in Uzbekistan range from outdoor activities, such as
rock-climbing, to exploration of its rich
archeological and religious history.
In 2005, the number of tourists visited Uzbekistan amounted 240,000 from 117
countries. Each autumn travel industry of the country holds International
Tourism Fair.
WTO
Silk Road
Office was opened in 2004 in Samarkand. This office is commissioned to
coordinate the efforts of international organisations and national tourism
administrations of countries located on the Silk Road.
Climate and nature advantages.
The climate
and the nature conditions of Uzbekistan are among the most favorable in
Central Asia. Taking
Tashkent a
reference point for comparison, 502 mi to the northeast from Tashkent, at the
former capital of
Kazakhstan
Almaty, the
average annual temperature is 5-8 degrees lower. At the same time, 804 mi to
southwest from Tashkent in
Ashgabat the average annual temperature is 8-10 degrees higher. The
relatively temperate climate, plus the presence of irrigation water, fecundates
the land of Uzbekistan, which yields many fruit crops. The melons,
grapes,
apples,
quinces, and
pears of
Uzbekistan have an incredibly delicious taste. The climate advantages of
Uzbekistan attract
mountain-skiers to the
Chimgan-Beldersay
area near Tashkent.
The combination of snow and mostly warm, sunny weather holds makes the Chimgan
and Beldersay ski slopes extremely popular.
Mountaineering, hiking and
rock-climbing.
Uzbekistan Mountains are an attractive place for those who love active forms of
tourism such as
mountaineering and rock climbing. Most well known for its ease of access
from Tashkent is a highland Chimgan located in the mountain massive of dominant
Greater Chimgan peak (3,309 m) of the Chatkal range at an altitude of 1,620 m.
This place serves as a commencement for many routes of hiking, climbing, horse
riding, mountain skiing and
hang-gliding.
Architectural and historical
sights.
Samarkand with its
Registan,
Bibi-Khanym Mosque,
Gur-Emir and
Shah-i-Zinda,
Bukhara
with its
Po-i-Kalyan Complex,
Ark
citadel,
Samanid Mausoleum and
Lyabi Khauz Ensemble, and of course
Khiva
with its intact inner city
Ichan Kala,
mosques,
madrasahs,
minarets,
walls and gates are acknowledged sites of world tourism.
Though Tashkent is often overlooked in the search for the
Silk Road
oasis towns of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, for the traveler there is much
besides this to be seen. Today one can visit such striking sights as
Mausoleum of Sheikh Zaynudin Bobo and
Sheihantaur memorial place or
Mausoleum of Zangiata.
Tourism in Khorezm Province and
Karakalpakstan.
The territory of the
Khorezm
Province and
Karakalpakstan is strewn with plenty of natural, historic, architectural and
archeological sites. The Khorezm Province itself possesses near to 300
historic
monuments.
In the last few years, the tourism potential at the region was improved with
some new facilities and attractions. One of them is the
Savitsky Museum in
the town of Nukus,
which houses a collection of unique works of avant-gardism. The museum also has
amazing regional collection. A number of ecological tours are organized to the
ship cemetery located in Muynak area along what has once been the coastline of
the
Aral Sea.
In 2005 Khorezm was visited by 43,000 tourists, of which foreigners accounted
for 19,700. The majority of them came from countries such as France, Germany,
Israel, Great Britain, Australia and Japan. The visitors of Khiva were mostly at
the age of 50-70 (46%); about 21% of tourists were of the age 30-40. 32% of the
visitors of Khorezm was independent travelers, that received visa support from
local travel agencies.
After the modernization of the airport in
Urgench it
received international status. Now it corresponds to the first category of ICAO.
Wildlife areas in desert and
other attractions on nomadic ways.
Desert fauna of
Kyzyl
Kum includes many kinds of rare animals. There is a Kyzyl Kum nature
reserve at the flood-land (tugai) drained by the Amu-Darya. Another reserve
(eco-centre) "Djeyran" is located 40 km to the south of Bukhara.
The region of
Aidar-Kul Lake is an area of great potential for fishing,
yurting
and camel-back riding tourist activities.
In addition to fauna common for Kyzyl Kum, there are many kinds of water birds
migrating from
Aral Sea that make their homes around the lake. Many sorts of fish were
introduced to the Aidar Lake, which nowadays works as a source of industrial
fishing.
Another point of interest the Sarmish Gorge (Better known as
Sarmishsay) is located on the southern slopes of the Karatau mountain range,
30-40 km to the north-east of the city of
Navoi (Kermine)
in Uzbekistan.
This place is famous for various ancient monuments of anthropogenic activity
concentrated in an area of about 20 sq km. The sights include flint quarries,
mines, old settlements, burial mounds, crypts and petroglyphs, including
monuments of the Middle Ages, early
Iron Age,
Bronze Age
and even
Stone Age.
There are over 4,000
petroglyphs
still intact in Sarmishsay. Since ancient times this territory has been a sacred
zone, where locals performed their sacred ceremonies on holy days.
Dental Tourism in Uzbekistan
Lately many modern dental clinics were established in Uzbekistan.
They provide patients with high quality dentistry services.
But for all that, prices here much cheaper in comparison with Western and Russian clinics.
Uzbekistan leading dental clinics use high quality dentistry equipment
(such as panoramic pantomograph, which allows taking the shot of all 32 teeth, making a
digital x-ray, which can be immediately shown on the computer monitor),
high quality materials and effective anesthetics.
These clinics provide services of therapeutic treatment;
treatment of tooth canal under the control of digital x-ray apparatus,
surgical operations; prosthesis and orthodontics as well as prophylaxis,
cleaning, polishing of teeth, irrigation and massage of gums.
Experienced orthodontists and skilled technicians make metal-ceramic crowns
on the basic of the most modern ceramic masses.
The dentures are done using primarily metal-ceramic and effective clasp prosthesis
that use special joints. All kind of dental works are executed with the most modern equipment,
using the best materials from reliable world producers,
such as: Dentsply (Great Britain), Voco (Germany), Chirana Prema (Slovakia),
Septadont (France), "KaVo" (Germany), Gendex (Italy),
Bego (Germany), Renfert (Germany).
If you became interested in dental services like this, please visit
appropriate page on this site.
Religion-based interests of
tourism.
Lately, great numbers of tourists from the West can be seen visiting Uzbekistan
because of their religious-based interest.
The followers of
Sufism know that dozens of historical sights of Islam such as Mausoleum of
Sheikh Zaynudin Bobo,
Sheihantaur and
Mausoleum of Zangiata in Tashkent or
Bakhauddin Ensemble,
Buyan Kulikhan Mausoleum,
Saifuddin Bukharzi Mausoleum and many others monuments in Bukhara are
related to Sufism.
Although Uzbekistan is the country with predominantly
Islam roots,
but it is generally known that the Church began in Asia. Its earliest history,
its first centers were Asian. Obviously
Nestorian
Church, which was one of the widespread communities of early Eastern
Christianity, dinted their tracks on the Uzbekistan soil. Those tracks still can
be found at the art and other cultural environment. According to historical
explorations in Bukhara, before it was captured (early 8th century) by the
Arabs, the Christian temple stood at the eastern gate.
One of the components of so-called Evangelical Christianity in Central Asia
became German
Mennonites. They migrated to Russia because of their pacifist convictions.
Russian Government promised to release them from military service. This promise
was kept until 1880, when Russian
tsar
Alexander II
had signed the decree that made all males of Mennonites liable for call-up to
military service in Russian army. The way out of the impasse was found when one
of the Mennonites' leaders German Yantcen met the
governor-general of
Turkestan
general Von Kaufman
in
Saint-Petersburg. Kaufman, German itself, invited Mennonites to
Russian
Turkestan. He promised to release them from taxes and from military service
for 25 years. In that way, Mennonites arrived to Sary-Agach village (about 13
miles northward of Tashkent). With time, they widely settled at different places
between Vyernyi (Alma-Ata)
and Khiva. One of Mennonites even used to be a translator at court of Khiva
Khan.
The first Baptist
congregations in Uzbekistan have been started at the close of the 19th century
at small towns near to Tashkent (Gazalkent, Karabog, Iskander) where the
population were mostly consisted of the colonists from
Russia. The
extant Gazalkent Baptist congregation is oldest in Uzbekistan.
The oldest Tashkent Baptist congregation has been started in 1905 from the group
of the military. To our time, this congregation is the largest in Uzbekistan
(about 600 members). The Baptist Union had been set up in Uzbekistan in 1925.
Today the Baptist Union in Uzbekistan unifies near 30 congregations throughout
the country that consist of near 1800 believers.
There are also large amount congregations of
Pentecostal
denomination.
Lately many
protestant churches were started among Koreans, who also live in
Uzbekistan.
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