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Sherdor Hotel Samarkand

M.Koshgari str. 91 Samarkand, 703000, Uzbekistan

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Samarkand

A travel blog entry by helen-wositzky

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... it together, dried & then turned over & the original paper pattern washed off. An immense amount of work for each tile.

The Medressa ( the entrance archways ) usually lead into a square with a domed Mosque ( or two or three ) with Minarettes ( the towers) placed either side of the mosque or medressa . The detail in the work, the range of intricate designs using a basic pallete of mostly aqua's, blues, greens, and gold is unbelievable. The ...

Beautifully schooled and entombed!

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... bus circuit, of which there are quite a lot! Clearly, such people tend to be my age or older and are on a ‘Stan’ tour (including other neighbouring countries) or simply touring Uzbekistan and the Aral Sea disaster. They probably all looked much smarter than I did!!

The Old Town here is an impressive area of small houses, off lanes and alleys. It’s good to be able to get into these areas as much as possible, as it certainly seems to be ...

Het hart van de zijderoute

A travel blog entry by maartenmarieann

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... zo bedriegelijk, met zo een pak geld in je zak voel je je een miljonair en dan ga je iets eten en dan is plots de helft verdwenen.

Op de laatste dag in Bukhara kwam in ons hotel een koppel vissen naar onze plannen. Dat is altijd een goed idee want misschien moet je dezelfde kant uit en dat bespaart je een hoop tijd en geld met het vinden van een ‘shared taxi’. Sinds Turkmenistan is het concept van bussen weggevallen en bestaat het transport tussen de ...

More fabulous Samarkand sites but what a hot day!

A travel blog entry by ae.middlemarch

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We left early to venture out before the heat of the day. I wanted to visit the Bibi-Khanym Mosque and the Registan again seeing the facades in a different light. Absolutely stunning and I now understand their relative significance to the history of Samarkand.

We then visited Timur's family mausoleum, or as they appear to say in English: Timerlane. It was quite something to stand there and reflect on the scale of this ...

Experiencing the ancient architecture of Samarkand

A travel blog entry by ae.middlemarch

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... this to be so.

So we have on one side the Ulugbek Medressa finished in 1420. Ulugbek was Timur's grandson, who ruled Samarkand until 1449. Where his grandfather in 1370 had made Samakand the capital of his empire and Central Asia's economic and cultural centre, Uglugbek made Samarkand an intellectual centre as well. Inside the medressa were lecture halls and at the rear a large mosque.

More than two hundred years later, Shaybanid Emir Yalangtush ...

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