Samarkand Hotel

University St, 1 Samarkand, 703026, Uzbekistan

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Samarkand

A travel blog entry by helen-wositzky

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... are just astounding ,even more so when you are explained how they are constructed. The design is line drawn on a piece of paper, each colour numbered, each shape cut out then pasted upon the correct coloured tile. Tapping the tile with a small hammer to break off a section a little bigger than the shape, then sanding the tile with a pumice stone to the exact shape. All the shapes are placed upside down in the correct way like a jigsaw, plaster put on it ...

Beautifully schooled and entombed!

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... I went on a half-day tour around the city.

The Jamie Mosque (1812) was built by Umar Khan (a local ruler). It had a really impressive 100m long portico/avian, with 98 supporting, ornate Indian redwood carved columns. The minaret was at the front centre of the mosque, which is now used as an artisans complex. The ceramics and suzani were pretty in one room, while others housed ceramics, silk, knives and jewellery at tourist prices. This is another stop on ...

Het hart van de zijderoute

A travel blog entry by maartenmarieann

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... je letterlijk een pak geld op. Het grootste briefje hier, 1000 sum, is 30 eurocent waard. En hoe werkt dat dan? Wel, het hotel belt de geldwisselaar. Deze komt dan ‘onopvallend’ met een sportzak vol geld af, allemaal handig gebonden in pakjes van 100.000 sum. Een enkel briefje van 200 euro levert je dan bijna 7 pakjes op, ja 700 biljetten, steek dat maar eens weg! Mensen hebben hier gewoon geen portefeuille meer, ze lopen rond met bobbels geld in hun broekzakken. En ...

Mad dogs & Englishmen!

A travel blog entry by alexgrange

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... of Samarkand in summer. My guide nearly wet herself laughing when I used the idiom “only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun”. The tour was amazing, with so much to learn and absorb, that it nearly makes up for the fact that it took me two days to get over the dehydration and heat exhaustion I suffered as a ...

Experiencing the ancient architecture of Samarkand

A travel blog entry by ae.middlemarch

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... seating and staging for an upcoming festival, which limited the sense of the plaza as a space that unites the three individual medressas. After all, these buildings were not just architectural masterpieces but living places where great minds met, scientists forged new knowledge and the young schooled in the knowledge of the time. I learnt, for example, today that it was Ulugbek who proposed that the earth was round but that it was Kopernicus, a Dane, who much ...

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