Samarkand: Day 72 to 75
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
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