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  1. Day 275: Arriving on the Silk Road

    Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 18 December 2010

    Mir-i-Arab Medressa, Bukhara Uzbekistan! Finally, after the most corrupt chain of taxi drivers at yesterday’s border who cheated us and stopped us from hitching rides with trustworthy Irani trucks. Don't you feel like you're on the Silk Road? Bukhara is our first stop in the country and also the first signs of the ancient Silk Road. Beautifully aged Islamic architecture and caravanserais

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  2. Silk Road Cities

    Blog: Travelicious - 12 August 2009

    Greetings from Uzbekistan! We have visited the Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara with their many magnificent medrassas (Islamic schools) and mosques, all beautifully decorated with exotic blue mosaics and turquoise domes. One afternoon we sat at a rooftop restaurant in Bukhara enjoying the view out over one of these striking buildings, watching the light slowly change with the day, witnessing the blue colors of the domes and the intricate tile work morph in the golden light.

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  3. Mosques, mausoleums and medressas – the marvels of Uzbekistan

    Blog: MatthewGain.com - 12 May 2009

    The amazing Registan in Samarkand is a complex of medrasses (Islamic academy/seminary) and a large mosque When we flew into Tashkent from Istanbul a little bleary eyed at 4am we were already a tad hot under the collar. From what we had heard of the Uzbek immigration/customs process we thought it was going to be [...]

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  4. Uzbekistan

    Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 22 October 2008

    Nowhere captures the magic and mystery of the ancient silk road better than Uzbekistan.

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