driving straight through the covered market in Bukhara

Uzbekistan - Slik Road Cities - mile 5750

---

May 12th 2010
The drive from Khiva to Bukhara is mostly across the Kyzylkum desert and in places the desert is taking over the road and we have to weave our way between pile of sand. The other excitement is the rickety pontoon bridge we have to cross. In places the metal plates are no longer attached to each other and there are some steep changes in level. Anyway we survive and arrive in Bukhara only we see ... read more

Asia » Uzbekistan » Samarkand

---

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