Sasha & Son Bukhara

Bukhara

A travel blog entry by helen-wositzky

... run out of time just writing entry - so don't think I'm ignoring you.

Now in Bukhara, the whole place is like an amazing heritage site. A smaller town than where we have been so far, everything much more compact and closer together than the previous towns. Rather than wide boulevards it is a maze of small alleys, all earthern, with a main square not of paving but clustered around a square large pond. ...

Combien de "stan" me reste-t-il?

A travel blog entry by triptherapy

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... ou presque si on oublie quelques whisky a Teheran :-) qu'il est doux de retrouver la fraiche saveur d'une biere. Et dieu sait que le desert donne soif. Longue route surchauffee, vent de 3/4 de face qui desseche tout sur son passage, et transporte poussieres et sable jusque dans nos gorges. Soudain, le calme du desert est interrompu par le passage de dromadaires, et le silence immobile du tableau est rompu. Lentement et sans un bruit, les animaux ...

Seriously on the Silk Road

A travel blog entry by ae.middlemarch

Bukhara is an oasis in the Kyzylkum desert, 250km downstream of Samarkand, my next stop, on the Zarafshon River.

I am glad my young guide, Valary, and I began our tour of the shahristan, the old city, at 9am as it was slightly cooler and few tourists were about. In fact, because of the heat in June - usually over 40 degrees C - it's not regarded as tourist season. We explored four different places on foot:

• The three remaining covered ...