Destinations
One country, several countries within it. Where the light falls differently.
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The capital and the usual starting point. Old mosques and a great bazaar sit beside wide avenues and the first metro in Central Asia.
Timur’s capital and the most famous halt on the Silk Road. The blue domes and tiled portals of the Registan are the picture most people carry of Uzbekistan before they arrive.
More than two thousand years old and best understood on foot. Trading domes, madrasas and the Kalyan minaret fill a compact old town where everything is close.
A whole walled town, Itchan Kala, kept almost entire, like a museum under the open sky. Sleep inside the walls and watch the minarets change colour at sunset.
Timur’s home town in the green foothills south of Samarkand. What remains of his Ak-Saray palace still gives the measure of the scale he built on.
Desert and lake country between Samarkand and Bukhara. A spring with sacred fish, a night in a yurt camp in the Kyzylkum and a camel ride towards dusk.
The country’s craft heartland, over the mountains from Tashkent. Silk woven by hand in Margilan, blue ceramics fired in Rishtan and a khan’s palace in Kokand.
The far west of the country. A collection of once-banned Soviet painting in Nukus, the ships left on the old seabed at Muynak and a night on what remains of the Aral shore.
The western Tian Shan an hour and a half from Tashkent: a turquoise reservoir, two valleys climbing from its shore, and snow on the peaks for much of the year.
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