Donat - Guida turistica a Tashkent

Donat was very professional. He carried on the tour even though there was only 2 of us. He took a relaxed paced, which we appreciated. We would've never taken the metro if it's not for the tour. It was a great experience and the metro architecture gave more meaning with his explanation. He introduced local food that we had not tried before in other parts of Uzbekistan. It was a great walk overall. Thank you Donat.

This tour was amazing. You visit an area where tourist usually don’t even hear about. Donat is a local there and shows you around. You see multiple impressive works of art by the Uzbek Banksy and Donat also shows you pictures of the removed ones. He knows the thoughts and stories behind each picture and also shows you the authentic and real side of Tashkent. It was clearly one of the highlights of my trip!

I wouldn’t recommend this tour in any way shape or form. We started meeting at Hotel Uzbekistan. Went up to the hotel after he stood there for 15 minutes talking. When we got up to the top floor he had everybody sit and see if they wanted coffee which we had to purchase from the bar. Then we sit down and he asked us the same questions that he had already asked us which was where we were from. Then we go up into the lobby of that level and stands there and shows us an entire folder of photographs of who knows even what because at that point. the whole thing was so disorganized and we didn’t understand what the pictures were of he was showing us. They were faded poor photographs of places we supposedly were going to see on the tour. Now we go up to another level into a room that is pitch black in the hotel and you can’t see anything in it. Literally it was pitch black. I almost fell cause I couldn’t see where I was walking. I have no idea why we even walked in there. Then we came out of there and we stand and he talks for another 10 minutes about absolutely nothing we finally get out of the hotel and start walking So at least 40 minutes into it we’re finally on an actual walking tour at that point once again he kept stopping showing us pictures in that stupid folder of things that we couldn’t see because he was taking us to areas that were pitch black and we couldn’t see the buildings. This is the way it went the entire tour. Supposed to be an hour and a half tour, 21/2 hours later we’re finally ending. He takes us to this area that again because it was so confusing we couldn’t understand where we were. It had fountain, but the fountains were dry and not flowing and he said this is the end of the tour. He proceeded to collect money from everybody and then turned around and walked away and left us all standing there, trying to find our own way back in the dark to wherever we were going. He could’ve at least taken us back to the Uzbekistan hotel where we started from. From there we could have navigated our way back to our hotel or wherever we were coming from. There were 2 single women on the tour only 5 total and to leave them alone there without giving them directions to get wherever they wanted to go or escort them out was just not right. His direction was so bad that one of the women on the tour almost got hit by a car cause he just told us to cross the street so that’s what we started doing. I could go on and on about this, but I have never ever been on a city tour with someone so incapable of knowing how to be a guide and how to to do a tour like this. Don’t sign up for this for your own safety unless you want to trip and fall in the dark or be left stranded in the city to fend for yourself.

En este tour, Donato nos lleva a un barrio de Tashkent donde no hay turistas, asi que uno puede ver mejor como viven los locales. Los murales que nos enseña son pocos pero asombrosos! El barrio es seguro! No es en si un tour que habla de historia de la ciudad/pais, pero mas de como viven el dia a dia los locales. Altamente recomendable para ver y conocer algo muy distinto no solo de Tashkent pero en si de Uzbekistan.