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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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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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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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