Wide view of Himalayan peaks and ridgelines along the Annapurna trail, Nepal

Asia

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is blue domes, bazaar noise, and desert heat that remembers every caravan.

Place stories in Uzbekistan (Asia).

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Bukhara
One of the seven noble cities of Islam — 2,500 years of scholarship, trade, and craft, with madrassahs, mausoleums, and an old city that st…
Khiva
A walled old city — mudbrick lanes, blue mosaic domes, climbable minarets, and dungeons the city was infamous for in the tenth century.
Koshkuduk
A yurt stop on the edge of Aydarkul Lake in the Kyzylkum — dunes on all sides, a dark sky, and a camp where the night does the work.
Nurota
A pilgrimage town in the Kyzylkum where pre-Islamic and Islamic layers of history resist easy separation — a holy spring, sacred fish, and …
Samarkand
The Silk Road city that lives up to the name — Timurid domes and madrassas, Shah-i-Zinda, Bibi-Khanum, Karimov's mausoleum, Ulugh Beg's obs…
Tashkent
The capital where Soviet architecture meets modern Uzbekistan. Skyscrapers, mosaic mausoleums, a tower with an observation deck, and a baza…