“Memorable Moments…”

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"Camping is a great way to relax get away from modern day life and really get back to basics."

Camping

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Holiday Snaps are great for trying out different techniques; please check out some of mine.

Holidays

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"Camel Riding is an experience you will never forget, something we have all thought about."

Camel Riding

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Uzbekistan is quite an interested one, click here to find out what got me started.

Uzbekistan

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Fishing has come a long way in recent years and is no longer just for the professional.

Fishing

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“There are three core type of national cuisine, the rest of which is a variation of these themes.”

Cuisine

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“Nature provides some of the most breath taking views that can refresh the soul.”

Nature

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“Uzbekistan has beautiful animals, some of which are only indigenous to Uzbekistan.”

Animals

Welcome

Yurt camp "Safari" is located 5 km from the western shore of Lake Aydarkul, near the village lost in the sands Dongelek in the heart of the Kyzyl Kum desert, 60 km from a small district center - Nurata. At the moment it is one of the largest and most comfortable yurt camps in Uzbekistan.

In the camp permanently fitted to the Kazakh yurt holidays 10 (if necessary, be confirmed by another 6 tents), richly decorated with carpets and handmade sherdakami local craftsmen. Coloured woven patterns and even chandeliers create an unusually festive atmosphere in the tent. Yurt - the traditional home of the nomads of Central Asia has more than three thousand years of history. The design of improved all the time and has reached perfection. Yurt assembled and disassembled in an hour by the same family and is transported in 2 camels or horses. In her warm in winter and cool in summer. It is environmentally friendly, as is made from simple natural materials of wood, poles and felt, rolled up fleece.

Yurt camp is also equipped with a fixed toilet plumbing fixtures, shower, yurt wardroom, where the lunches and dinners. The camp has electricity. Tourists spend an evening around the campfire, the songs of a local wise man (artist of national songs), in an unusually quiet and peaceful surroundings, enjoying an incredibly big stars and the Milky Way. During the day tourists are walking around the camp, defying stereotypes about the lifelessness of the desert.

In the vicinity of the camp to the 25 species of plants, wildlife and diverse, turtles, lizards, pigeons, partridges desert, rabbits. Often you can see the giant monitor lizard, and, of course, camels. Camels are domesticated and trained for riding. Camels - Bactrian Bactrian and called. Common in Central Asia, China and Mongolia. While their immediate family dromedary - dromedaries common in Asia Minor and Africa, and in the deserts of Australia.

Yurt camp is the starting point for exciting and educational excursions in the region. Tourists can take a 2-hour trip by camel to the unique lake Aydarkul, stretches for 250 km in the desert, eat lunch here just caught a fish, relax, swim in its warm, slightly salty waters and sunbathe on the beautiful beach.

Near the camp are unique lake, which is still mined by hand the locals table salt.
Will make a lasting impression visiting the village lost in the sands Dongelek where local people still kept the ancient traditions and way of life.

On the way to the yurt camp you can visit the "stone art gallery," the old man in the hole Sarmysh. Here, the black basalt rocks found more than 3 thousand drawings - petroglyphs depicting animals, people, hunting scenes, everyday life and even sex. In a small town on the border of the mountains and deserts Nuratin tourists will be interested to visit a place of pilgrimage for "holy" source "Chashma" which floats over a thousand of the "sacred" fish. Here you can see the ancient irrigation system - kyarizes still delivering the valley groundwater with Nurata range and the ruins of ancient fortresses.

Yurt camp every year becomes more and more popular, not just here taking tourists from around the wor
eld who come to watch the world-famous monuments of Uzbekistan. The staff of embassies and international organizations, joint ventures and their guests will be happy to come her to relax and spend away from civilization, its the weekend. Many brought their children here, who personally discovered the other unknown to them the world.


Safari programs

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"Check out my holiday snaps where I had the opportunity to try out many different techiques"

Programs

Testimony

Had an amazing time, I would love to go again someday…

David Merkel