Winding lanes and facades which glimmer like a mirage in the desert… welcome to Bukhara.
Spellbinding Bukhara on the silk road
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Tim Blight
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The fabled silk road city of Samarkand
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Dodgy dealings on the road from Bishkek to Osh
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Lunch in a yurt at Lake Song-Kol
Lake Song-Kol is frozen for much of the year, but when the ice melts it attracts nomads from the lower pastures and trekkers from abroad.