We were in Samarkand over the New Year holidays, and this might be useful for someone. We went on an amazing free walking tour of the city center (you can leave a donation at the end). The tour lasts 4 hours, but the time just flew by. It seems links can’t be posted here, so you can just type “Free tours Samarkand” into the search engine, the Samarkand.Travel website will come up. A wonderful project, and I really hope it becomes popular and in demand.