| Duration: | 3 Day(s) - 2 Night(s) |
| Tour Category: | Photography Tours |
Amazing photo walking tour around the beautiful places of Tajikistan!
Day 1: Brief City Tour
- Check-in. Brief city-tour
Visiting:
- The square “Dyusti” (the central square of the Ismoili Somoni square);
- Central Dushanbe "Green bazaar"
- Rural areas close to the town
- Overnight in hotel (B/-/-)
Day 2. Dushanbe - Hissar trip
Visiting:
- Hissar village with one of the main Tajikistan monuments – Hissar historical reserve
- Hissar fort with an ark built in XVI century and now reconstructed. – Registan – a square before the fortress. – The old madrassah was built in XVI century on a territory of 2250 sq m.
- Mosque “Sangin”
- Overnight in hotel (B/-/-)
Day 3. Trip to Iskandarkul
- Breakfast
- Departure from Hissar to Zarafshan Valley, on the legendary lake Iskandarkul
- Explore the surrounding lakes Iskanderkul and Gorge, which are located on the shore of the lake. Photo shooting.
- Trip on foot to the waterfall “Fanskaya Niagara” (38m)
Overnight in the guest cottage (B/-//-/)
Hissar Historical Reserve
Located 30 km from Dushanbe (4-5 km from Hissar settlement) is one of the most important landmarks of Tajikistan - Hissar History and Culture Reserve. This name is related to archeological and architectural monuments of different ages found on its 86-hectare territory. The reserve location - Hissar Valley - is a vast intermountain hollow with the rivers Kafirnigan, Karatag, and Shirkent. People inhabited this place in the Stone Age, in the 4th-3rd millennia B.C.
Later, the valley territory was a part of Bactria, and then of the Greek-Bactrian and Kushan states. This fact is proved by the remains of ancient settlements found by archaeologists. However, today only orbicular mounds called "tepa” - "a hill" - have survived.
In the Middle Ages, Hissar was known for its crafts and markets. In the 18th-19th centuries, it was known as Hissar province - one of 28 domains of the Bukhara Emirate. Hissar fortress, which has survived since those times, is considered the most famous landmark of the reserve.
