Our Staff
Silk Road Treasure Tours and its knowledgeable guides and tour managers welcome you to our fascinating Silk Road Destinations of Central Asia, Caucasus and China Silk Road. They are licensed by the tourism ministries of the destinations we represent. Our guides are multi-lingual with first-hand knowledge of the destinations and experience with foreign travelers. They are culturally intuitive, flexible, and understand the western traveler. Their primary objective is to provide the client with outstanding service and a lifetime of memories. They take great pleasure in introducing their homelands to our visitors.
Dilya Rajabova
Dilya Rajabova was born and raised in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. From the young age she was able to meet the travelers in her beloved ancient town Bukhara where she developed passion in travel. After graduating from Bukhara State University and Uzbektourism with a double major in languages and escorting the travelers around Uzbekistan she started working with travelers to give them memorable trips in ancient Samarkand, Tashkent, Bukhara and Khiva. She is one of our experienced escort guides, tour managers with a great sense of humor. She loves talking about the legendary Silk Road stories, the cultures, history, traditions of her homeland Uzbekistan. She currently resides in legendary Bukhara, Uzbekistan with her husband and two children. Dilya enjoys traveling, cooking, crafts, walking and visiting the library, teaching young people to learn foreign languages. Dilya speaks Uzbek, Russian, Tajik and English. Throughout the years Dilya has been taking the travelers to the most spectacular places, remote villages where the travelers can really experience true adventures. Often she surprises the travelers with welcome events in different historical cities where the young performers and artists perform for the visitors. Dilya also creates the special menus for the travelers who are vegetarians and works very closely with hotel chefs and restaurants to make sure her travelers enjoy the tours and local cuisine. Another quality of Dilya to create artistic embroidery purses from silver thread.
Mohigul Isomova
Mohigul Isomova is one of our enthusiastic and well traveled social media experts who was born and grew up in ancient Bukhara in the family of tour industry professionals. From young ages she wanted to share her passion for her homeland and decided to learn English from young age. For several years Mohigul visited our US office where she learnt to create iconic itineraries, based on her local knowledge, gave the speaks about Central Asia Silk Road at the tourism shows, women travel clubs, ASTA and helped the travelers to have extraordinary travel experience in Uzbekistan and other Silk Road destinations. Fluent in English and Uzbek, Tajik and Russian Mohigul graduated from Tourism College in Bukhara with the degree in tourism, tour operator and tour agent profession. She holds travel industry top certificates and offers Silk Road Tours to Central asia as well as leisure travel to the US. Often Mohigul prepares for all our travelers welcome gifts.
She is a social media queen and posts regularly the updates about Silk Road Treasure Tours itineraries and events at google plus, facebook. She lives in Bukhara with her spouse Abbos. Her hobby, walking, traveling, cooking, photography
Sonya Abrahamyan
Ms. Sonya Abrahamyan ia a highly talented and one of our most knowledgeable Tour Guides in Armenia. She speaks English, Armenian, Russian and Russian. Sonya Abrahamyan was born and grew up in traditional Armenian family. She had a great passion to sharing the cultures, traditions of her homeland with others. After graduating from University with the degrees in languages and after taking the courses of license of tour guide she started working as tour guide and manager for travelers coming from around the globe. She loved photography, crafting, walking and traveling. If you need a good restaurant with authentic cuisine, a special bottle of wine or off the beaten path – Sonya is your person to arrange it all.
Rimma Zaitovna
Rimma Zaitovna is one of our veteran top guides in Kazakhstan with 30 years of experience with Silk Road tours around Kazakhstan. She is an Expert guide in art, history, religion and falconry topics in the country . She was born in Almaty, one of the most beautiful cities of Kazakhstan. She studied both in Kazakhstan and Russia and got the degree in languages and guiding. Since 1980s she has been working with travelers from all walks of life from around the world in ancient cities of the Silk Road. She is hand picked to work with many VIP travelers, official delegations, of the world. She speaks Kazakh, Russian and English languages. Her hobby is reading, cooking and mentoring young people. If you are an educator and would like to visit the schools or universities and meet with professors and students then Rimma is your contact. She can help you to build the bridge between you and locals.
Dinara Ankisheva
Dinara Ankisheva is an experienced and adventurist tour managers from Kyrgyzstan. She escorts our groups around the ancient sites of Kyrgyzstan and takes the travelers for hiking, photography, horsebackriding and yurt stays at the spectacular Tiyan shan mountains
She speaks english, german, arabic, kyrgyz and Russia. She is also a radio host in Bishkek. Dinara was born and grew up in nomadic kyrgyzs family. After graduating from kyrgyz national university with the degrees in languages she started working as a top interpreter and guide-interpreter and tour guide in her homeland’s major companies and government organizations. She loves hiking, photography, cooking. Dinara’s passion is arranging the special cocktails near Issyk kul lake after horsebackriding and sunset photography tours.
Kaykhusrav Usmonov
Kaykhusrav Usmonov is one of our best Tajikistan tour managers. He was born in a spectacular mountainous village called Basmanda, Khodjand, Tajikistan. He grew up hiking and photographing this beautiful natural wonders. After graduating Khujand State University he decided to escort our travelers around Tajikistan. He has been working with photographers and outdoor adventurers to shoot iconic photos and stay in an exotic hotels in the villages and mountains of Tajikistan. He knows the highest point of Fann mountains and when the photos can be taken and which locations of Tajikistan may have iconic views. Khaykhusrav enjoys working with travelers who also love mountain trekking, cooking and exploring. He speaks English, Russian and Tajik. Recently the travelers’ luggages were delayed but they had to start the hiking. But all hiking gear and shoes were inside the suitcase. Kayhusrav did not lose any time to find the way for the travelers to enjoy hiking with the hiking boots he has found within half an hour.