Antica B&B Samarkand

56-58, Iskandarov Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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Mad dogs & Englishmen!

A travel blog entry by alexgrange

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All the aging Audis and completely decrepit Ladas of Kyrgyzstan have been replaced with Chevrolets and Daewoos. These are the only type of car here in Uzbekistan, and they're ALL white! I suppose a black car in Central Asia would just be too hot.

The bus I took from Tashkent to Samarkand had a thermometer near the driver’s seat, and …

Samarkand - on the Golden Road

A travel blog entry by jimsim

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(Jim)

Starting out on this trip no other name had evoked images of the Silk Road for me than Samarkand had. This almost mythical city had seemed like the opposite end of the earth when we were planning for this trip, and now we were about to set foot on it's time-worn streets. Samarkand was ideally positioned to profit from the trade …

Journey to Samarkand

A travel blog entry by yoni

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October 13, 2007 Samarkand, Uzbekistan We arrived late last night and went to the Malika Hotel for a room with bath for $50; a very nice modern hotel, in fact it so nice that we were luck they had a room for us last night. We have to move out today because they are booked up for the rest of the season. We moved today to the Antica Bed and Breakfast …

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Samarkand

A travel blog entry by helen-wositzky

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... Some of the domes are 'ribbed' on the outside - 62 ribs which is the age the prophet Mohammed died. This complex of 3 mosques has been restored, the broken mosaics replaced, thus looks quite new.

The Shakh-I-Zinda Mausoleum was also amazing - up the steps through a Medressa which led into a corridor with a complex of about 20 tomb rooms - each one decorated differently, some very simply, some with thicker rougher mosaic, and some with fine ...

Beautifully schooled and entombed!

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... around the side and ask for directions in! I gave up asking in the end, as I was wasting too much time, so went back to the gatekeeper, who let me in via the west gate and took me thro’ an enormous graveyard. Modari Khan Mausoleum (1825) is the location of where Umar Khan’s mother lies, while Umar himself is up for conjecture. The 1830 Grave of Kings (Dakhina-i-Shokkon) is a reasonably elegant mausoleum with various tombs in its courtyard, with ...

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