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Samarkand Slideshow
Samarkand
Travel Blogs from Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The one that started it all!
... to be the tomb of Daniel, in the lee of a mossy hill, surrounded by streams, and worshipped by Muslims! “For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand” Flecker, James Elroy.You have to see it to believe it. ...
Timur Tiles and boogeying at the bazaar
After a lovely breakfast of bread, jams, egg and chunks of meat - this was to be the breakfast most days from now on - we headed to have a better look at the sights. They are all quite impressive but the pictures say alot more (and I could be arsed ...
Day One in The Romantic and Fascinating Samarkand
... ;dorixona” or drug store. Fortunately for us, you can buy prescription drugs over the counter in Uzbekistan. We finally reached Samarkand and were delighted with our new modern and comfortable Hotel President. Four nights here in absolute comfort ...
Ancient cities of the Silk Road
... tourist site guards for "special access." For a slightly off-the-beaten-track vacation, a great trip would be Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for a combination of outdoor adventure and history/culture. Next stop: across the Himalayas to ...
Plov, plov, plov,...
... .org/wiki/Plov Jeden zweiten Tag gibt es Plov, in jeder Stadt wird einem erzählt wie der Plov dort zubereitet wird, im Bordmagazin von Uzbekistan Airways sind Plovrezepte abgedruckt, Plov lässt einen in Usbekistan nicht los. Naja, nutzt ja nichts. ...
THE REGISTAN
Ive been wanting to see the Registan since I first saw a picture of the place. The place is amazing and that is why you are getting a whole thread on it. They are supposed to be the oldest preserved medressa's in the world, anything older having been ...
Samarqand
Samarqand is a place of such history and beautiful architecture. A lot of damage still remains from the earthquake(s), but the mosaics and mosques have ...
Samarkand
.I did NOT get arrested just detained. I spent a couple of hours running around replacing pictures. I have not got as meany as I had but I have got what I wanted and a few extras at first light that I didnt have before. When it was time to leave I walked ...
Samarkand
... . There are no more big sites to see. The other side is the soviet side, all parks and tree lined avenues. My last day in Samarkand and it has been pretty quiet. I walked around the old Soviet part of town and found the GUM department store. It is a huge ...
Samarkand
... observatory built by Timur's grandson (the bottom of a giant sextant is about all we could see); Afrosiab, the site of ancient Samarkand (ruined by Chinggis Khan and rebuilt at the current site), which is huge, overgrown, and looks like it needs a team ...
Samarkand
... Uzbeks, because that wouldn't be fair to the nice people we've met here. The guy who ran the guesthouse where we stayed in Samarkand was really helpful. One kid came up to us promising he'd only talk for a minute and stuck to his word, summing up his ...
on the way to Samarkand
... that wanted to stick tubes down someones nose without anesthetics, and using old russian devices from the 70's to hear heartbeats...anyways, that whole ordeal took 3 hours, so we didn't get to Samarkand till late, and all i wanted was an inviting ...
Bukhara
... , but we had to move on ;-/ our first stop was the birth place of Amir Timur, Shakhrisabz. It was about 2 hours south of Samarkand, and a very fertile area. We met our guide, and went straight to the 'White palace' or 'Aka-Saray' which was Timur's palace ...
Living in history's footprints
... direction of the water works that helped in the vegetation of the city. 8) Samarkad museum: the archilogical facts about samarkand. 9) Bibi Khanym chor bazaar: alarge selection of fruit and vegetables, but my favorite part was the dessert section, ...
Samarkand (Louise)
This week David has mainly been self-medicating. Possible Imodium dependency forming. This week he has also tripped over countless ancient monuments, hit his head on various low ceilings (ancient and modern) and smashed 1 bottle of beer over a shop floor ...
Samarkand
... guesthouse for dinner, where ate with another British tourist, who was equally shocked to see us. He had made his way across to Uzbekistan from Japan, alone! After a bit of Vodka and a few beers we retired for the eve. Ready to make our way to Tashkent ...
Uzbek Road Trip
Just about finished the tour of Uzbekistan, its my last night in Samarkand before heading back to Tashkent tomorrow and hopefully Kazakhstan the day after. The journey from Khiva south was interesting, I now appreciate the UK roads a whole lot more. The ...
Samarqand
we will then travel through Tajikstan to the classic central asian city of Samarqand in ...
Samarkand o Timur 3/3
... llancem cap a una de les pistes que van apareixent, forssa indiscriminadament, a les ultimes pagines de la meva llibreta: Jasur, Samarkand, 500-70-00; un metge ginecoleg que no parlava ni una paraula d angles, fent de turista interior a Khiva. Truquem ...
Experiencing the ancient architecture of Samarkand
... this to be so. So we have on one side the Ulugbek Medressa finished in 1420. Ulugbek was Timur's grandson, who ruled Samarkand until 1449. Where his grandfather in 1370 had made Samakand the capital of his empire and Central Asia's economic and cultural ...
Beautifully schooled and entombed!
... tend to be my age or older and are on a ‘Stan’ tour (including other neighbouring countries) or simply touring Uzbekistan and the Aral Sea disaster. They probably all looked much smarter than I did!! The Old Town here is an impressive ...
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
... winding old Soviet slums of Tashkent trying to find a bakery. It was an interesting way to see everyday life in Uzbekistan. We arrived in Samarkand after a 3.5 hour train ride. Our driver and guide (Valentina) picked us up and we started the tour of tiled ...
Samarcanda - La Via della Seta
... quel rancore che questa gente ha ancora – è comprensibile - per i russi i quali dopo aver invaso l’Uzbekistan (dichiarata indipendente dal 1° settembre 1991) tentarono di annullare la loro identità storico-nazionale, distruggendo parte ...
Uzbekistan
... , so me and my friend, with whom i already travelled to Israel, Canada, and many other places in europe, decided to go to Uzbekistan, the place, where my Grandfather once lived! To be honest, i didn´t know to much about it, but when we arrived in ...
A Day Trip To Samarkand
We spent one of our days off touring Samarkand, namely the old university and mosque. Interestingly enough it snowed that day, which is very unusual, considering that they typically don't have any snow until ...
Tamerlane was a Tyrant, but such a vision
... . The following day we piled into our van for the trip to Bukhara. On the way we visited a different pottery master whose style reflected the materials and designs of this part of Uzbekistan. After a wonderful lunch, we drove on to ...
Samarkand
22/04/2012 Well, my GARON throat ached last days and today I have NAZELET. My eyes are tearing. At least the throat is OK, I hardly eat anything Nina Issacob, where the Israelis go to sleep, said she doesn't take tourists any more - very good. I went to ...
Bukhara to Samarkand
... smashes the windscreen on her husband's car. I said to my companion that this explains the many cracked windscreens in both Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan. He laughed! The windscreens are actually broken on so many vehicles that I assume there is no such thing ...