Asia Tours & Travels(P)ltd

A special effort is required today, If you want to succeed tomorrow.
We are today one of Central Asia’s premier destination management companies.
It all started fifteen years ago, with the need to create, a travel service with a difference.
A travel agency which would provide complete Travel Solutions to its clients.
An agency which would do more than just take clients form Point-A to Point-B. An agency that could provide luxury whilst still being competitively priced.

It all Started with a small step.

A step called foresight.

The beginning.

We began in 1994 with a single office and two dedicated personnel-today less than thirteen years later we have five offices spread across the country and a team of 17 dedicated personnel’s, crossing Million USD annually turnover, with a single minded goal : “Total customer satisfaction”.

Welcome to our World.
We believe service begins with simple relationships: agent and travelers, agency and client. We welcome you to discover our world.

Rajiv Ranjan

(Managing Director)

Turkmenistan – the rich and ancient land of diligent people, won back from the Karakum desert. It has always attracted numerous conquerors. Annually the country experiences the”invasion” of many tourists who would like to see the ancient monuments of Kunya-Urgench and Merv, Nissa and Aktau. No one will depart without any souvenirs, jewelry decorations and certainly Turkmen carpets, the most famous carpets in the world.
From Turkmenistan many tourist continue their travelling to Iran (Persia) and by ferry via the Caspian Sea to Azerbaidjan.

Surface: 446,4 sq. km. Climate: continental.
Average temperature: January – 4°C, July – 36°C
Population: 22 million people.
Languages: Uzbek and Russian.
Religions: Islam, Christianity.
Capital: Tashkent (2,3 min, inhabitants).
Time: 4 hours ahead of GMT.
National currency is soum. 1 scum = 100 tiyn.

Samarkand – the ancient capital of the huge Tamerlan`s Empire. Even nowadays the monuments of that time strike us by their size, beautiful mosaic with numerous drawings, the exactness and symmetry of architectural forms. The blue dome of Tamerlan`s Mausoleum – Cur- Emir and its inner ornamentation area unique. Complex of Mausoleum Shahi- zinda, Afrosiab – the ancient town, historical museums of the city, bazzar – the most interesting sights ot the city. Tourist can also see the fight and musical show in Registan Square, folk show in Sher-Dor – Madrassah, the theater of historical costume; the taste-room in the most ancient vine-making factory in Central Asia is famous among many of the tourists.
Bukhara is considered to be one of the most ancient cities in the world. It is about 2500 years old. Many mosques and madrasahs (religious schools) are still preserved. Among them Char-Minor, Chashma- Aub, Gav-Kushon, Namazgoh. Cultural- religious complex Nakshbandi has been recently restored. One on the most ancient monuments I – Samanid’s Mausoleum (9 – 10 c.) strikes by its geometrical strictness. Country residence of Bukhara emir – Sitorai Mohki-Hosa, architectural complex Laybi-Hauz, Ark fortress, Necropol Chor- Bakr are particularly popular. The gold embroidery and the coinage of Bukhara are very famous far from outside of the country.
Khiva is the unique museum-town under the open sky. The main monuments, being preserved nowadays, dated 19 – 20 centuries, are concentrated inside Ichan-Kola – the old part of the city, surrounded by the fortress’s walls. It seems that time has stopped here. From the top of Islam-Hodja minaret one can perfectly see Tashhauli – palace of Khiva Khan, Djl mosque, Pahlavan-makhmud Mausoleum, Shirgazi-khan Madrasah. There are wooden gates of the madrasah and mosques, every dwelling house is decorated with unique patterns. The famous Khiva carpets are valuable all over the world.

Kazakhstan – an independent state since 1991 member of the CIS. The territory is 2,717,300 sq. km.
The highest point is Mt Khan-Tengri (7,010 m) in the Tengri – Tag range of the Central Tien-Shan mountain system. The climate is severely continental.
The average temperature in January is 13 degrees below zero, Centigrade. The average temperature in July is 25 degrees above zero, Centigrade. The population is 17 million. The main nationalities are the Kazakhs and the Russians.
Also Ukrainians, Tatars, Koreans, Germans, Uzbeks, Uigurs.
The main religions are Islam and Christianity. Capital: since 1996 the capital of Kazakhstan is Akmola.
National currency: tenge. Official language: Kazakh.

Almaty
To get to the mountains people make distant trips by planes. In this respect the dwellers of Almaty (Alma – apple, Ata – father) are privileged people. The huge range of Zailijski-Alatay, which towers over the boundless Kazakh steppes, forms a four km wall, which begins straight on the southern edge of the city. On any clear day Alma-Ata dwellers can admire the view of numerous summits covered by snow even at the hottest time of the year. The experienced glance of a mountaineer will at once notice that mountains have an amazing diversity of Alpine relief and are concentrated in one rather small area and can be approached without great difficulty.

Medeo
The skating-rink Medeo (1692 m), known in many countries of the world, is located 20 km away from the southern edge of Alma-Ata in the gorge of a swift, with crystal glacial water, mountain river Malaya Almaatinka. An unusual, immense, splendid structure opens to the eye from a dam, which protects Alma-Ata and Medeo from the sills (stone and mud flows). The panorama takes one?s breath way – snow-capped peaks sparkling in the sun, the tall Tien-Shan fir-trees, the coolness of the mountain air.
Hotel ?Medeo?, a restaurant, bar, swimming pools are near by the stadium. Chim-Bulak is a place for heli-skiing and slalom.

Yassawi mausoleum
(160 km away from Chimkent, in Turkestan)
This mausoleum was built by the legendary saint – Hajji Ahmed Yassawi. It includes 35 different premises connected with each other by means of six-two-storied corridors and passageways. The destiny of the memorial was, alas, sorrowful. From the city?s decoration it rapidly turned into a fortress. Its walls grew black from the fires lit by the peasants and soldiers. Its inner premises were used as depots for ammunition and food. The memorial was badly ruined after many centuries of battles. But nowadays it has almost been completely reconstructed. This demanded great financial expenses. But the work was worth it – there?s no any other complex as grand and majestic as this one on the former territory of the Timurids.

Otrar
The ancient settlement Otrar is located in Kzylkum district near Talapty village, 7 km from the railroad station Timur, on the Right Bank of the Syrdaria River near the confluence with the Arys River.
Otrar is the native city of the medieval philosopher Al Farabi.
A settlement on the site of Otrar existed since the IVth c. BC. It was first recorded in the Arab travel guides of the XIth c. Otrar as a center of trade and handicraft and as an important junction of the caravan ways to Eastern Europe and China flourished in the Xth-XIIth c. In the end of the XIIth c. Mongols razed it to the ground. In spite of the disastrous consequences of the massacre, Otrar rised from the ashes and shortly its economic development began anew. The reason for this was the strategic location of the city on the trade routes. Between the XIIIth and XIVth centuries the mint place of Otrar, which coined money on behalf of the Mongolian khans, gained great fame.
In the second half of the XIVth c. Otrar was under the rule of Timur and turned into an important strategic center of the southern outskirts of his empire.
However, repeated sieges, fights, plunderings undermined the economy of Otrar and in the XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries it fell into decay.
In the plan Otrar is a trapeziform hill with rounded corners, directed to the sides of the world. The remnants of the citadel and other large buildings, of the gates and rabad, which covers about 10 sq. Km have come down to our days.
750 km from Almaty International Airport, 230 km from Tashkent International Airport (Uzbekistan), 80 km from the domestic airport in Shimkent.

Surface: 198,500 sq. km. Mountains: 94 %(average altitude: 2,200 m, highest altitude: 7,439 m), plains: 6%.
The climate is continental. The average temperature in January is from 4 to 14 degrees below zero, Centigrade, in July – from 12 to 30 above zero, Centigrade.
Population: 4.4 min. Kyrgyz (52,8%) Russian (21.3%), Uzbeks (I 2.8%), Ukrainians (2.3%), Germans, Dungans, Kazakhs, Tanks, Tatars, Uigurs, Koreans.
Religions: Moslems, Christians. Languages: Russian, Kyrgyz.
Capital: Bishkek (900,000).
Time: 4 hour ahead of GMT.
National currency: I som = 100 tiyn

Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous paradise, is nestled between Uzbek desserts, the Kazakh steppe, tumultuous Tadjikistan and the outback of Western China. Across Kyrgyzstan stretch the majestic Tian-Shan and Pamir mountain ranges with some of the highest mountain peaks in the world such as Pobeda Peak, 7439 meters & the 7134 meters Lenin Peak. Such magnificent mountains have transformed Kyrgyzstan into snowfields, glaciers, mountain rivers & streams, rich green Alpine meadows and lush and fertile valleys. Once off limits even to the people of Kyrgyzstan, the widest valleys of the Tian-Shan are now accessible offering serene walks, treks and climbs through pristine forests of juniper and walnut trees, sweeping meadows of medicinal herb and other rare plants, over Crystal clear mountain streams which are stormy bringing the glacial waters to the valley below, to secluded mountain lakes, and to the unexplored snow-covered mountain peaks. Also accessible are the mountains and unending serene shorelines flanking Lake Issyk-Kul, the Kyrgyz inland sea.For fifteen centuries the Kyrgyz people have inhabited these mountains. Originally nomads, many Kyrgyz continue to tend vast flocks of sheep, and breed horses while living in the remote yurt encampments high in the mountains. Once a caravan crossing rout of the Silk-Road, Kyrgyzstan is now endowed with an abundant cultural and historical legacy. Besides the ancient towns of Osh, Uzgen and At-Bashi, scattered throughout the mountains and valley are numerous Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Nestorian Christian ruins of monuments, and ritualistic rock paintings of the 2nd century BC. Along the ancient rout of Silk-Road visitors can expect to find the Kyrgyzstan people carrying on their traditional musical instruments, making intricate jewelry, and taking part in their ancestral sport and horse racing.Discovering the land known as Kyrgyzstan is an unforgettable journey and an exotic adventure. Come to Kyrgyzstan to revel in the wonders of the glorious and magnificent mountains, come to uncover the mysteries of the Kyrgyz people and the land know as Kyrgyzstan.