Ornate Architecture at Registan

Samarkand: Day 72 to 75

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August 24th 2023
After Tashkent, I took a train to reach the second largest city of Uzbekistan, Samarkand (means Stone City, same meaning as Tashkent). Trains are a great way to travel in this country and the local people are super friendly, always trying to feed you and enquiring where you from. Samarkand, a city ruled by Alexander, Genghis Khan, Timur and traveled to by Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta, remains o ... read more

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Russia conquered Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic set up in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain... ... read more