Caravanserai

We said our goodbyes to our new friends in the early morning of the 13th which you may not know is my birthday and set off on our way to Arbaqu.  My tour mates and leader, Reza, made this day very special for me.  I was sad being away from ...

... Gorge and lunch in Gorge, the Underground city (I'm not afraid of being in deep caves anymore - Yay!), Fairy Chimneys, Club Caravanserai - the Turkish dance nite was great and the rooms were nice, getting a new leather coat, bartering, the Topkapi ...

... , restored and expanded in 1278 after it was partially destroyed by a fire.   It then became the largest caravanserai in Turkey.   Interestingly, caravanserais were used as roadside inns where travelers could rest and recover from ...

... hundreds of miles is beyond me. In time we arrived at our chai-stop. We pulled up at an ancient, and now abandoned caravanserai near the wonderfully named town/village of Now Gonbad. Isn't that just the most fabulous name? I wonder if it ever was once ...

... wandering, a very nice man in a suit jacket struck up a conversation with Simon and offered to show us the nearby caravanserai (a fortified structure in which caravans would park at night to protect their wares; there are caravanserais every 40 km or so ...

... are selling from hole-in-the-wall’s, tiny little rooms under the vaults of the covered bazaar, or from an old caravanserai. They are selling everything, from food and clothes – like the shop full of black burkas! -  to furniture, ...

... a curious old caravanserai, the Zein-o-din Robat. Built by order of Shah Abbas I (1587-1629) in the early 1600's, the old caravanserai has been beautifully restored to its former glory and is now used as a hotel. For such a touristy place, the hotel was ...

... the known world doing their thing a thousand years ago or more. Bukhara, then was a major stopping point for travelers, with a caravanserai outside the city walls for people who arrived too late and the gates were closed. Inside the city walls, however, ...

... after he said that, a private tour screeched to a stop in front of it and two tourists got out and wandered into the caravanserai.  Hmmm.  We never saw them come out so maybe it wasn’t safe. ...

... the Karvansara was destroyed. The researches prove that Gulustan Karvansara is the most beautiful and largest railway caravanserai among others in Azerbaijan. NAKHCHIVAN JUMA MOSQUE - this monument belongs to Middle Ages as well, ...