1 day.
9-30 -Arrival in Nukus by morning flight.
Meeting at the airport and breakfast at the Ratmina hotel
10-30 -Departure Barsakelmes (200 km) - This is the name of the saline lake - 70 km. in length and almost 40 km. in width - these are the dimensions of this giant lake. Barsa Kelmes is part of the former bottom of the huge ancient Tethys Sea, which disappeared from the face of the Earth millions of years ago. Fantastic canyons and cliffs of the gypsum-clay desert of Ustyurt slowly descend to the world of sparkling salt - the Barsa Kelmes salt marsh depression. It has a grandiose size - almost 2000 square kilometers! .. An incredibly huge gray-white-blue space that opens up to the eyes of rare guests of these places - almost pure salt that filled everything around to the visible horizon.
12-00 –13-00 .Lunch. Departure to the ancient city of Beleuli. It is located 67 km north-west of the Zhaslyk railway station on the Ustyurt plateau, there is a monument of medieval architecture, the Beleuli caravanserai, built of rectangular shell rock slabs. Its walls over 1 meter thick are reinforced at the corners with round towers about 3 meters in diameter. The front side of the building opens with a high portal with an arched entrance. There are also eight sardobas - a kind of reservoirs for collecting and storing rain and melt water. The caravanserai was decorated with bas-relief decorations of lions or tigers.
15-30- Departure Alan-Kala Fortress
The ancient Massaget tribes who owned Ustyurt were looking for a place here where a source of water could be located. Soon, the Alan-Kala fortress was erected, the walls of which reached 4 m in height and 2 m in width. The Ustyurt plateau was originally the bottom of a large sea that disappeared millions of years ago. Therefore, the stones from which the ancients built the Alan fortress are covered with myriads of interspersed shells from the bottom of the prehistoric sea. And although the walls of the ancient structure are abundantly covered with the sand of history, the remains of the Alan fortress to this day stand alone in the middle of the stone desert as an eternal monument to the power of the former people, the walls of which reached 4 m in height and 2 m in width.
17-30 -Departure to the fishing village of Urga. Walk and overview of Lake Sudochye. Meeting with the fishermen. Dinner. Overnight in the fishing village.
2 day.
Breakfast. Departure across the Ustyurt plateau to the coast of the Aral Sea (130 km off-road) Further the route continues to the coast of the Aral Sea to the most picturesque canyons of the Ustyurt cliff.
On the way, a survey of picturesque canyons on the Ustyurt cliff and places of ancient burials of nomadic Sarmatian tribes that roamed in the 4-2 centuries BC.
Yurt camp "Aral Oasis"
Dinner. Walk along the shores of the Aral Sea.
Dinner by the fire
Overnight in a yurt.
3 day.
Breakfast.
Departure along the former (now drained) bottom of the Aral Sea and arrival in the city of Muynak (140 km). Yurt camp "Muynak"
Tour of the ship graveyard.
13-00 Lunch at the cafe "MAYAK"
Visit to the Aral Sea Museum in Muynak. departure from Muynak and arrival in Nukus (220 km).
18-30 .Accommodation at the hotel "Ratmina"
19-30 Dinner. Overnight at the hotel.
4-day.
Breakfast. Check out. Visit to the Savitsky Museum, which contains works of avant-garde artists. There you will see rare paintings by prominent Soviet artists such as A. Volkov, Usto Mumin, R. Falk, A. Serov, U. Tansykbaev, etc. The museum houses a magnificent collection of applied arts of the Karakalpaks and the peoples of Central Asia.
13-00-14-00 Lunch.
14-30- Departure Drakhma Chilpyk-Fortress, Zhampyk kala, Sultan Weiss baba, Toprak kala, Ayazkala-Khiva.
