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Itinerary for a Half-Day Tour to The Sun Heliocomplex in Parkent
Joined 2024
The Solar Institute of Uzbekistan is one of the most interesting sights in the country! Tour to the second-largest solar furnace in the world includes visit to a field of huge mirrors, solar oven and a small museum. The place was chosen due to clear and low-density atmosphere, and 280 sunny days a year. Climb the concentrator and watch the process of melting objects at scorching heats. Take an informative and inspiring tour to the Solar Institute and enjoy mountain views on the hills with me!
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
Hotel
- - At your hotel or place of your request
"The Sun" heliocomplex ( Journey 1 hrs )
Drive to the city of Parkent to visit the Solar Institute
Solar Institute
Upon arrival, tour starts by visiting to the Big Solar Oven, a technical complex with a solar concentrator, a technology tower and a field of heliostats. The heliostat place - special mirrors that work in harmony to create a perfect coating of the concentrator bowl with sunlight.
During the tour you will visit:
- The heliostat field filled with 62 mirrors;
- Museum of Solar Energy:
- Hydro meteorological station:
the Tien Shan Mountains
The upper observation deck offers a beautiful view of the mountains and Parkent valley. The complex is situated at an altitude of 1100 meters in the foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains, so after a tour of the Sun Solar Complex, you will have free time to enjoy the beauty of nature before returning to Tashkent.
Ending Point
hotel
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Inclusions & Exclusions
- Tour Guide fee
- Transportation via Chevrolet Cobalt Lt
- Gasoline fee
- Toll fee
Bottle of Water per person
Enterance fee, photo and video fee, meal
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2024
About Tour Guide Shovkat K.
Assalomu Alaykum! Welcome to Uzbekistan - the Land of Ancient Culture!
To start, I want to introduce you about myself.
I am a professional tour guide qualified to guide throughout the whole Uzbekistan possessing more than 18 years of experience. I am from Tashkent and I live there.
Reading is my hobby. I enjoy reading about historical books, interesting legends and nature books. May be my interest was a reason to have highly efficient knowledge about Uzbekistan and its history. Looking at my previous experience, I began my work as a part-time tour guide. Then I have held a lot of tour group and personal tourist excursions.
Since 2012 I have operated as a multi-tasker guide: a tour guide and driver. During the years I have learnt the subtleties of Tourism. Moreover, I can offer multitasking skills along with an ability to tour and drive along Uzbekistan, reservations for hotels and transportation, to produce tailor-made itineraries for travel to short or long-haul destinations.
Uzbekistan is popular for its world-famous historical cities, some of which are included in the World Heritage List. Each city has its own uniqueness and magic. Khiva is an open-air museum, and Bukhara is filled with the ancient architecture of the medieval city, and Samarkand will immerse you in the local culture and traditions. Tashkent is a city with interesting mixture of modern architecture and old buildings.
Delicious Uzbek cuisine, fruits, nature, beautiful sights, world-famous historical cities, most importantly, very friendly, hospitable, kind, sincere and nice people will make your trip to Uzbekistan a memorable one. Let's come and explore Uzbekistan with me!
*Tour Guide License- awarded by the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Tourism Development.
* Driving license given by Tashkent.
* English language certificate- awarded by Wembley language college in London.
I do not have any restrictions in regard to my guiding, I can offer a full range of experiences.
Reviews
Peter P.
Itinerary for a Half-Day Tour to The Sun Heliocomplex in Parkent
“Really interesting ”
Very knowledgeable guide, very good English. The heliocomplex itself is fascinating. Built by the Russians about 40 years ago and still being used today for research the array of mirrors can create temperatures of 2000 degree. If you are willing to pay a few dollars more they will use one of the mirrors to set a chunk of wood on fire and burn holes in a steel bar and a brick. The views from the hill behind the mirrors and from the top of the concentrator building are great but require a long uphill walk and climbing many flights of stairs. The stairs are made of steel grates that you can see through which can be a bit disorienting especially if you are uncomfortable with heights. Well worth a trip, and Shovkat is an electrical engineer which makes him the perfect guide for this tour.
Pete B.
Itinerary for a Half-Day Tour to The Sun Heliocomplex in Parkent
“I cannot speak highly enough about Shovkat”
Shovkat was polite, friendly and extremely knowledgeable. It is not surprising given his history that he has an academic’s knowledge of the sites he will take you to. His English is excellent and he studied for a time in London. His German is better, he told me, and Shovkat also speaks Russian. Go with this guide!
Shovkat K.
Hello Pete! Thank you so much to your positive feedback! It was really my pleasure to be your host and I hope you will return to Uzbekistan again. Many thanks!
$154/ per group
