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At Last ! - Samarkand - On The Silk Road.

A travel blog entry by heatheravan

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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 bitterly cold winters. So he made a human chain stretching for the 300 kms and the bricks were …

Samarcande

A travel blog entry by malfhm

... aux parements de céramique, accompagnés de peintures sur stuc à l'intérieur, sont en fait fragiles et nécessitent des restaurations fréquentes. L'Unesco et diverses coopérations internationales y participent. Nous visitons aussi la Samarcande actuelle, y retrouvant les très larges espaces publics, et une contruction effrénée d'immeubles mixtes (commerces en rez de chaussée et appartements aux ...

First stop in Uzbekistan

A travel blog entry by timshazz

... was. Seeing as we didn’t need to register we just feigned ignorance...it was obviously a money spinner. He kept insisting until I pulled out my phone, rang our contact in Dushanbe from Atlas and told him we were having translation issues. A short, loud conversation ensued which I would loosely translate as "pull your head in mate" and he begrudgingly nodded us through. A few minutes later our mate rang back and told me “there had been a misunderstanding”. ...

What a difference!

A travel blog entry by scruffy.alex

... a waiting lorry by 9am, the gates were firmly shut to both car and truck alike. Potentially the victim of an unofficial Sunday half-day, the shrug from the army guard gave the feeling we might be waiting a while.

We weren't wrong.

Five hours later, a touch before 2pm the corrugated metal gate was rolled open and we were finally into the system.

Virtually an identical process on both sides ...

Samarkand: Mythic and Majestic

A travel blog entry by mmtrip

... on bicycles and they ask us if we travel the same way…"No. We use public transport and our feet when we go trekking… :)" but slowly we start to feel 'special' as we become the exception in the guesthouse.

We have the feeling that being a cyclist is like belonging to a special community – they all share common stories about their experiences (problems with parts of their bikes, border crossings, routes taken (main roads/highways vs. back roads), types ...