Treks & Itineraries in Central Asia

Treks & itineraries

Routes worth the distance

Sample itineraries you can travel as written, or use as the skeleton for something of your own.

Country

Difficulty

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

A short, high-value week in the Tian Shan: alpine lakes, a yurt camp on the jailoo and a day in the saddle.

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, with time built in for markets, food and craft workshops.

🇹🇯 Tajikistan · 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

One of the great overland routes: Dushanbe to Osh across the Pamirs, through the Wakhan and over 4,000 m passes.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

Canyon country, glacial lakes and open steppe on a two-week loop out of Almaty.

🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

The Karakum desert, the burning Darvaza gas crater and the vast Silk Road ruins of Merv and Konye-Urgench.