Bukhara Old Town Walking Tour

<section><h2>Overview</h2><p>Bukhara’s old centre has kept its medieval street plan and more than a hundred protected monuments within walking distance of one another. A morning on foot with a guide is the best way to understand how it fits together.</p></section><section><h2>The walk</h2><p>Starting at nine at Lyabi-Khauz, the pool at the heart of the old town, the route passes the Magoki-Attori mosque, sunk below modern street level, and makes a short detour to Chor-Minor with its four blue-domed towers.</p><p>Through the covered trading domes you reach the Poi-Kalyan ensemble — the Kalyan Minaret, the Kalyan Mosque and the Miri-Arab madrasa — then the facing madrasas of Ulugbek and Abdulazizkhan, the walls of the Ark and, opposite it, the carved wooden columns of the Bolo-Khauz mosque.</p></section><section><h2>Highlights</h2><ul><li>Lyabi-Khauz</li><li>The trading domes</li><li>The Kalyan Minaret and Poi-Kalyan ensemble</li><li>The Ulugbek and Abdulazizkhan madrasas</li><li>The Ark and the Bolo-Khauz mosque</li></ul></section>