A holy Silk Road city with more than 140 monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. See the Po-i-Kalyan complex with the 47 m Kalyan Minaret, the Ark fortress, the Samanid Mausoleum, and the Lyabi-Hauz, a pool surrounded by mulberry trees and teahouses.
The domed bazaars sell carpets, suzani embroidery and ceramics. Stay in a family-run guesthouse in the old town.
The great public square of Samarkand, framed by three monumental madrasas from the 15th to 17th centuries, covered in blue and turquoise tilework, on…
An avenue of mausoleums climbing a hillside, built from the 11th to the 19th centuries, with some of the most beautiful glazed tilework in Central As…
The walled inner town of Khiva, a remarkably complete Silk Road city of mud-brick walls, madrasas, minarets and palaces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tashkent's metro, opened in 1977, has some of the most ornate stations in the world, each decorated with chandeliers, marble and mosaics on a differe…
Moynaq was once a fishing port on the Aral Sea, which has shrunk dramatically since Soviet irrigation diverted its rivers, one of the world's worst e…
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