Registan Samarkand

when i arrived there i asked taxi driver to deliver me Registan. it was the big place with Panorama of 3 ancient Madrassah. like Ulugbek and Sher-Dor. the weather was very cold and it was something between rainy and windy. after some minutes Yulia came and we start talking about this nice city and her family. after visiting lot's of historical …

Samarkand! After long drives down the dust roads called a temporary highway, mild food poisoning from poorly cooked but delicious shashlik, and the felling of being completely lost in translation, i had finally arrived at the city that inspired the trip to Uzbekistan. The first night there was filled with more rain, but the warm desert heat made it …

... shashlik, and the felling of being completely lost in translation, i had finally arrived at the city that inspired the trip to Uzbekistan.  The first night there was filled with more rain, but the warm desert heat made it perfect for walking ...

... to the monuments of Tamerlane.  So let's dig in to the layers--this is what I unearthed while walking around Samarkand's sites. Stone Age artefacts are the clues to the puzzle of the first layer.  Genetic studies are perhaps ...

... up that I remembered that (a) I was still bedridden only 3 or 4 days before, (b) I have a bad knee, (c) I'm a little claustrophobic, (d) Uzbekistan has a history rich in occurences of people being thrown from the tops of minarets, and (e) our friendly ...

... Samarkand has been one of the greatest cities of Central Asia. It even was capital of Uzbekistan for a short while until Tashkent took over. Arriving in Samarkand, we took marshrutnoe 17 to the bazar and headed for Bahodir's guesthouse. He had ...

There is a legend in Uzbekistan that to build the Registan in Samarkand, Timur, the ruling King, needed to get the best bricks from Bukhara, some 300 kms away in the quickest possible time. Donkeys were too slow, and Elephants didn't work well in the ...

... nbsp;  Walking around Samarkand, I met this British guy who is of Kenyan/Pakistani origin and we decided to travel around Uzbekistan for a while before I leave for Turkey. One thing I love about traveling is the random people I meet in random places ...

... a German traveller we had met at the guesthouse, we set out across a neatly manicured park towards the famous Registan complex at the tail end of the dusk. As Samarkand grew in power and wealth as a centre of trading along a major trunk of the Silk Road, ...

... very aware of the poor relations between the US and Uzbekistan (which date back to a violent 2006 protest and massacre in Uzbekistan which the US heavily criticized, leading to the withdrawl of aid money and less military cooperation) and wanted to be ...

... Sprache hier, die mit persisch verwandt ist, alle anderen Sprachen sind tuerkisch, und ja, Samarkand ist eigentlich tajikisch). Neben dem Registan (siehe separater Eintrag) gibt es noch weitere Sehenswuerdigkeiten, leider alle ein wenig verstreut ...

... more complexes of mosques and mausoleums from Tamerlane’s time until we finally made it to the gem of Samarkand: The Registan. Three medressas (Islamic schools) built facing one another, towering around a large open square. Each massive structure ...