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Marcando Samarkand
A Praça do Registão, em Samarkand (ou Samarkanda, dependendo da velocidade do vento), é a imagem do Uzbequistão assim como o Pão de Açúcar é sinônimo de Brasil. A foto dessa praça está em tudo e em todos os lugares. Deixar essa cidade para o final foi uma ótima idéia, pois deu aquele ar de expectativa ao tour. Chegamos de Shakhrizabs com fome e, à …
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... the domes also mosaic - the most important of them with gold leaf. It is impossible to get a photo that does justice to the mosques.
Registan Square with the Bibi-Khanym Mosque is amongst the world's oldest preserved medressas - the one on the left completed in 1420. The rest of the medressas of this age were destroyed by Ghengis Khan. The tiling on the Minarettes actually write Allah in the oldest arabic writing which is a very goemetrical ...
Beautifully schooled and entombed!
... policy to ‘keep it sweet’ in the tourist areas. The Narbutabey Mosque and medressa (1799) seemed to have work in progress, which would be a good thing, as the Russians closed it, Stalin re-opened it to garner Muslim wartime support and Karimov shut it again in 2008! I was actually trying to find an adjacent graveyard, on account of some notable occupants, but no-one in the immediate area seemed to know where it was, despite the caretaker telling me ...
Het hart van de zijderoute
... dat auto’s zich op welbepaalde parkings verzamelen en wachten tot er vier mensen zich aanbieden die naar dezelfde bestemming willen. Bleek dat het koppel twee Barcelonezen waren, Imma en Juan heetten, en ook naar Khiva wilden. Heel fijn voor ons. Ineens mee afgesproken om de volgende dag na het ontbijt te vertrekken. Volgens de gids was het een tocht van een kleine 400km en zou het een 5 uur duren. Na een uur onderhandelen dan toch vertrokken voor wat een van de meest ...
More fabulous Samarkand sites but what a hot day!
... for better or worse, 800 years' ago. His empire stretched from the Bosporus, included today's Iraq, iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, for a brief year Delhi, and north to Kazakhstan. He was actually born not far from Samarkand at Shakhrisabz and was building a mausoleum for himself there. When he died unexpectedly from pneumonia in Kazakhstan, the pass to his birth place was closed and the family then buried him at ...


