Mausoleums23 km away
Chashmai Ayub Khazira (Vobkent)
A shrine in Vobkent district built in 1208–1209 over the grave of an 11th-century hadith scholar, linked by legend to the prophet Job and a spring.
Tudakul Reservoir
A large, shallow desert lake 26 km east of Bukhara, formed by a Zarafshan flood in 1952 and now a Ramsar wetland for waterbirds.
Nature1952About 2 hours to see
About the place
Tudakul formed naturally in 1952, when Zarafshan floodwater broke into a desert hollow, and was turned into a reservoir in 1968. It covers about 210 square kilometres, with an average depth of under 5 metres, and is topped up from the Amu-Bukhara canal. The water is slightly mineralised and tastes bitter-salty, like sea water.
Together with the neighbouring Kuyumazar reservoir it was added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance in 2020, and birds of the duck family and swans gather here. A beach resort opened on the shore the same year. The lake lies in Qiziltepa district of Navoi region, with the Padautau sands to the south.
Why go
- Ramsar-listed home of waterbirds and swans
- Easy day trip from Bukhara
- Desert lake with a beach area
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Sayyid Amir Kulol Complex
Memorial complex in Sukhor village near Bukhara around the grave of Sayyid Amir Kulol (1281–1370), the sixth master of the Khwajagan Sufi line.
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Amir Muzaffar Khan Mosque
A nineteenth-century mosque with a pillared porch inside the Bahouddin Naqshband complex outside Bukhara, built in the time of Amir Muzaffar.
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Dakhmai Shohon (Shaybanid Burial Platform), Bahouddin Naqshband Complex
A marble-clad burial platform of the Shaybanid khans inside the Bahouddin Naqshband shrine near Bukhara, covered in fine carving and calligraphy.
