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  1. Khiva, Uzbekistan Wishes You Were Here

    Blog: Suzy Guese - 9 September 2011

    This week’s Wish You Were Here post comes from Cynthia of CynthiaOrd.com, Thoughts on Tourism, People and the Earth. Cynthia is fascinated with travel and tourism as an industry and its impacts.  She likes to visit unlikely places and see how many people she can convince to go there.  Be sure to check out her [...]

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  2. Day 277: Train to Khiva

    Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 25 December 2010

    The restored main gate of the city of Khiva Whoaa Khiva! A superbly preserved & restored Silk Road city. The moment we stepped foot within the city’s fortress-like mud walls, I must’ve droped my jaw like many ancient merchants did when they first arrived, having hauled for days through the desert. You don’t need much imagination to feel Khiva’s glorious past, much of which still shimmers.

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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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