Hear you can stay in Guest Houses in the villages tucked into different valleys and get to see a very different side of Uzbekistan & discover the Kyzyk-kum desert and enjoy a night with the stars at a jurta camp with camel trekking.
Hiking the Nuratau mountains is great for a number of reasons:
Different landscapes: mountains, trees and waterfalls
Different people: Kazakh shepherds and Tajik villagers
No cities: just nature and tiny villages
Tour is customizable for small cost and can start in Bukhara and finish in Samarkand or vice versa.