cooking up traditional food

with the walls of Kuhna Ark palace and Kalta Minor Minaret in the background. It would have been the tallest minaret of the time if it had been finished

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Uzbekistan - instalment 1 - Khiva - mile 5298

May 9th 2010
Uzbekistan has a lot to live up to - Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva; just hearing the names of its cities conjures up such strong images of the Silk Road, of traders from India, Persia and China all mingling and bartering goods, of Alexander the Great capturing the Sogdian Empire, of Genghis Khan raising the cities and of Timur's near mythical rebuilding of Samarkand to be his capital. Its all so exo ... read more

Asia » Uzbekistan » Khiva

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

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