My sister and I booked and customised a 16 day tour to Uzbekistan with TravelLocal. I usually enjoy the planning and logistics of a holiday so I was a little unsure about booking through a company. However, I needn’t have been and will definitely be using TravelLocal again! I enquired about the tour via the website on a Sunday and was surprised and amazed to receive a weekend phone call from Feruza just ten minutes later! I shared some of the places that we hoped to visit and the kind of experience we were after; very quickly, I had a well-crafted and personalised itinerary, which Feruza further adapted (we had decided to add a few extra days on). The booking process was impressive from the offset and Feruza was always on hand to answer any questions I had - both before and during the tour. Throughout the tour we were lucky enough to have excellent drivers and passionate local tour guides, who went out of their way to make us feel welcome and give us a once in a lifetime experience - Marifot (Tashkent), Kamol (Aral Sea and Khiva), Niso (Bukhara) and Nasiba (Samarkand). Some of the guides even contacted us at night - in their own time and without being asked - to send us restaurant and nighttime recommendations! Each of them had a wealth of knowledge and adapted the tour to suit our needs on the day. The hotels booked for us were comfortable and all staff were friendly. In fact, we found that the whole of Uzbekistan was friendly. From the local houses we entered on our way to the Aral Sea as well as at Mitan village, to the elderly ladies who invited us to dance with them in Samarkand, to strangers on the street - Uzbekistan did not disappoint! It’s hospitality, architecture and history is second to none. We were able to do so much more with TravelLocal than we would have otherwise been able to and since arriving home, I have been telling everybody to visit Uzbekistan! The cost of the tour was great value for money. The internal flight and train transfer were well organised (and both comfortable). Thank you Feruza and TravelLocal. I will definitely be visiting Central Asia again one day and will be using TravelLocal (hopefully very soon) for lots of future travels!