Bibi-Khanym MosqueBibi-Khanym Mosque · photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0

Self-guided walking tour of Samarkand

21 sights · Uzbekistan

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Samarkand, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Samarkand

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

3-hour walk past the highlights of Samarkand

5 stops · 6.8 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

  1. Photo: Toïlev, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 8 min walkKuk Mosque
  2. Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
    🚶 35 min walkAfrasiyab
  3. Photo: Bgag, CC0
    🚶 9 min walkAfrasiab Museum of Samarkand
  4. Photo: Akhemen, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 19 min walkHazrat-Hyzr Mosque
  5. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0
    🚶 8 min walkBibi-Khanym Mosque
Walk this route (with map)

More well-known sights in Samarkand

  1. St. John the Baptist Church, Samarkand
  2. Khoja Ahrar complex, Samarkand
  3. Chupan-Ata Mausoleum
  4. State Museum of Culture History of Uzbekistan
  5. Samarkand Museum of Local Lore
  6. Ulugbek observatory museum
  7. Qoraboy Oqsoqol Mosque
  8. Zoological Museum of Samarkand State University
  9. Kanesoi Gumbaz synagogue
  10. Samarqand Xalqaro tinchlik va birdamlik muzeyi
  11. Ruhabad Mosque in Samarkand
  12. Turar joy, hovli va hovliga kirish darvoza ustunlari
  13. Kanesoy Kalon ibodatxonasi
  14. Kanesayi Kassobho ibodatxonasi
  15. Or-Avnar ibodatxonasi
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