Our good friends Ahmed and Salim

Bukhara - Can't get enough of those turquoise minarets

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May 6th 2007
Enough with the turquoise turrets. We felt like spoilt kids with parents that owned a fudge shop - wonderful merchandise, beautiful in fact, but please, not one more piece. Sadly, looking at beautiful stuff can get a bit tiring (of course, looking at my wife will never get tiring - need to include this to ensure I get dinner tonight). Today was our last day in Bukhara, before we would head of ... read more

Asia » Uzbekistan » Bukhara

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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