Samarkand One Day Private Tour from Tashkent with Bullet Train
Recommended by 90% of travelers
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- 9 to 12 hours (approx.)
- Group discounts
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
When in Uzbekistan, do not miss a chance to visit the beautiful, historic, and cultural mecca that is Samarkand. This hassle-free private day tour takes you to Samarkand from Tashkent, with all logistics worked out, including your round-trip bullet train ticket. Places to look forward to seeing are Gur Emir Mausoleum, Registan Square, Bibi Khanym Mosque, Siab Bazaar, and much more.
- Easily find the departure point in Tashkent
- Visit all the highlights, including Siab Bazaar
- Hear all about the layers of history from your private guide
- Enjoy this tour with just you and your private group ;
What's Included
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Experienced licensed guide
- Entrance tickets
- All Fees and Taxes
- Return Bullet Train Afrosiyob Tickets Tashkent-Samarkand-Tashkent option
- Tips for Guide & Driver
- photo & video Museum charge to be paid cash at entrance $1-2/sight
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Shimoliy Vokzal77RP+J94, Turkiston ko'chasi, Тоshkent, Toshkent, Uzbekistan
Meeting with local Guide at entrance with signboard
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
1
Gur Emir Mausoleum
45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
2
Registan
1 hour • Admission Ticket Included
3
Bibi Khanym Mosque
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
4
Siab Bazaar
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
5
Shah-i-Zinda
1 hour • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travelers can participate
- Please check Uzbekistan entry requirement at Wikipedia on Visa policy of Uzbekistan
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
4.7
based on 10 reviews
diegoga8, Apr 2026
Amir was amazing and super helpful in coordinating our high-speed train tickets. He was extremely attentive on WhatsApp and made the whole process smooth and stress-free. The tour in Samarkand was also fantastic, with Laziz as a very knowledgeable guide who brought the history and sites to life. Overall, a great experience and highly recommended!
Abhilasha_B, Aug 2025
An absolutely fantastic and well-organized tour! Everything was seamless from start to finish, and our guide ‘Timur’ was knowledgeable, engaging, and truly superb. It’s the perfect way to spend a day exploring such a historic city – highly recommended!
KatherineW, Jul 2025
Charos, my guide, was so knowledgeable and professional! It was a brutally hot day and she expertly navigated us into shady spots before sharing the historical city of everywhere we visited. She also did an excellent job connecting the key characters and time frames between each location which helped me understand the full history. The car was clean (and cold!) and the driver was kind.
Andrew_B, Apr 2025
Guide was very knowledgeable, polite and informative.
As for Samarkand it was the gem I’d always hoped it would be but our guide Pushi made the trip.
I can’t recommend this trip enough.
Viator managed to get us a train ticket as we booked 2 days earlier but the bulletin train had sold out .. we should have followed Viators advice and booked much earlier but the normal train was superb too 😀
praveen_n, Oct 2024
Tour operator New Prime India Cochin Tours and Travels recommended we enjoyed it very. Much with family
Maciej_M, May 2024
Samarkand is obviously a must- visit place when travelling to Uzbekistan. We managed to visit the most important parts of old/ancient Samarkand. Tombs, mausoleums, mosques, statues coverted to tourists traps and shops, shops, shops…. Beautiful but quite sad…. Unfortunately, our trip was not as smooth as it could be. When we received a written confirmation from travel agency we were sure that everything is booked. Surprise, surprise….. a day before the trip we got one-way train tickets only. Thanks to hotel staff we arranged on our own taxi to the train station, caught Afrosiab express and reached Samarkanda. We were welcomed by a nice and polite guide, who had no idea why we did not receive return train tickets. She called the office and learnt that they work on this now. Finally, we got two tickets for different trains and timing. Our tour should be cut by 2 hours and participant should travel back to Tashkent separately with different trains. We did not agree and complained. After few hours, the travel agency managed to find two seats in the same train ( one in economy class another one in vip class - vip class is a kind of Uzbek joke, worth nothing). I understand that Afrosiab trains are full in high touristic season and sometimes buying tickets is difficult or impossible but travel agency should never confirm tours if they do not have booked tickets for travel. Now, we will remember mainly travel issues from Samarkand instead of beauty of this place. Travel agency provided us with a knowledgeable guide, good driver, clean car but forgot to book train tickets….
Response from Host, May 2024
Maciej, first educate yourself before you book or write, bullet train are in extreme high demand, they are open for sale 45 days before departure and are sold out within one hour in high season, so next time book in advance. Second learn to be greatfull for a team that managed impossible by securing your train tickets even on last minute, third open your eyes all airline companies & hotels practise overbooking as they know there will be last minute cancelation, last but not least we take a calculated risk in business that allow us to serve hundereds of tourist with last minute request like yours, if we were to stop this you would have never seen samarkand in peak season on a one day trip, so think before you write next time.
Ramziya_J, Mar 2024
Easy to listen guide’s language
Carting, attentive and cheerful guide
Flexible schedule of tour
Enough information is provided to comprehend
fitriandika_n, May 2023
this private tour was amazing, the car was very comfortable, our tour guide (shokhrukh) was very informative and flexible, he also knew very good spot for taking your pict! overall, we were satisfied with this tour! recommended 👍🏻
Amir_Z, Jan 2022
Everything was organised perfect, beautiful city with a lot of very interesting sights, guide was really very friendly, helpful and had a hugh knowledge about the history and sights
Response from Host, Apr 2022
Thanks Amir, we are glad that everything was to your liking,
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