During the 6th-14th centuries there were thousand the greater and small roads crossing the Asian continent and leading to the West. On them caravans followed, and each of them has been filled by exotic clothes, east goods and spices. Greater and small cities, a caravan-sarais grew along the line of way.
The numerous centers of national crafts, art schools, madrasahs, castles, mausoleums have been created. Traders, missionaries and pilgrims travelled, introducing new religions, customs, goods (glass, porcelain, soap, gunpowder) and the most interesting - various culture.

The Great Silk Way during many centuries connected the countries such peaceful acts like trade, exchange cultural and spiritual wealth, which is unique for all mankind.

The special long-term program which includes offers on revival of a historical heritage, has been created together with UNESCO. In 1994 the Samarkand declaration "About revival of the Great Silk Way" has been accepted.
The main tourist way is crossed with 32 greater and small cities of the Central Asia. The pearls of the Great Silk Way are Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and cities of Fergana valley. You are expected the exciting travel to the past.

In former times the Great Silk Way connecting Europe and Asia, favour the development and prosperity of region of the Central Asia, and in particular, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Shash (modern Tashkent), east cities which have kept up to now unique colour with their squares, caravan-sarais and medieval monuments of Islamic architecture. The Last ones have created the world popularity to these cities of Uzbekistan which gradually turns to one of the world tourist centers to Asia.

The great silk way as a trading highway has arisen in the 3rd century B.C. and has existed till the 16th century A.C. Many devastating wars, destructions, big fires, famine and pestilences saw the ancient trading cities located along a Silk Way.
Some of them have sunk into oblivion, having left to descendants a ruins covered with legends, others many times blazed on fire, perished and again revived to amaze the world with riches, blue of domes, openwork terracotta ligature of the mausoleums and mosques.

With many centuries a polyglot east markets rustled, with hundreds years on dusty to roads carried for sale to Europeans precious silks and gems, spices and dyes, gold and silver, exotic southern birds and animals.

The Great Silk Way is one of the most significant achievements in history of the world civilization. The broad networks of trading ways crossed the Europe and Asia from the Mediterranean up to China and served during the epoch of an antiquity and the Middle Ages as the important means of trading communications and dialogue between cultures of the West and East.

Most long and main stction of the Silk Way passed through territories of the Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan. Caravans, loaded silk from China, spices and semi-precious stones from India, silver products from Iran, the Byzantian cloths, afrosiab ceramics and many other goods went across deserts Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum, through oases of Merv and Khoresm, boundless steppes of Sary of the Arch; overcame passes of Pamir, Tan-Shay, Altai, were forwarded through the rivers Murghabs, Amu Darya and Syr-Darya.

The European countries cooperated and communicated with the Asian countries. The Central Asia located between China and India in the east, between Persia and Arabia in the south, the European world in the west, Volga and Siberia in the north, almost two millenia it stood on crossing of trading ways.

One of the first who has described this trading arterial road, historians consider the Chinese diplomat Chzhan Tsan lived in the 1st century B.C. Plenty of chinese coins, bronze mirrors, rests of silk fabrics, fragments of chinese manufactured china, found out at archeological excavations, proves that already during this period the Central Asia has involved in trade relations with China.
Under influence of China in the Central Asia began to develop silk and paper manufacture, and from the Central Asia China has accepted cultivated grapes, lucerne, onions, cotton, pomegranate, walnut, fig tree and cucumbers.

More safely in road! And you will see magnificent architectural constructions, will get acquainted with the picturesque nature, will feel a hot wind of deserts, will see dazzling tops of mountains, be struck with their beauty. Look in the past and in him you will see today. Happy travel at the Great epoch and a legendary Silk Way.