Silk Road

9 of the best things to do in Bukhara, a Silk Road gem in Uzbekistan

Bukhara is a jewel in Uzbekistan’s Silk Road. Your first glimpse of the city may be the imposing Kalyan Minaret. ...
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How to travel across Uzbekistan by train

When we first decided to visit Uzbekistan and researched how to travel between the Silk Road cities, we found an ...
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How to travel between Tashkent and Shymkent by bus

Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s bustling capital, is tantalisingly close to some of the other ‘Stans’. In particular, the southern borders of Kazakhstan ...
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Chasing Sunsets, Sunrises and Sights on Khiva’s City Walls

Travel back a couple of hundred years, and the site of Khiva’s ancient city walls would have struck abject terror ...
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