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More blue mosiaque Structures

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August 12th 2015
Geo: 39.6576, 66.9476Having driven from Samarkand towards the southern entrypoint to Tajik we committed a crime in Usbekistan… yep we camped… in actualfact we free camped.. in a creek just off the road where we hoped we would notbe found.. It had been a long day. The road is bad and had numerous Policecheck points made going slow…. Oh and I also got stopped by the police tw ... read more

Asia » Uzbekistan » Samarkand

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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