The Bibi Khanum mosque in the Samarkand old town is one of the four
great Timurid monuments in Timur's power base. Though the rest of
the modern city has been thoroughly sovietified, the electric colours
and persian-style mosaics of these masterpieces were well restored and
maintained by the Soviets and continue to be among the finest examples
of their kind in the world. The word for the colour turquoise
stemmed from this light blue, deriving from the Turkic peoples that
lived here in Uzbekistan, and before that, the historic land of
Transoxiana.
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Tezykovka Market,
Tashkent. "everything from nails to nukes"
Broom merchants at the bolshoy Rynok (great market) of Bukhara
Carpet market in Bukhara
Two years on the road takes its toll on world travellers. This
one has been transformed into a mutant whose eyeballs have been
converted into the ultra-sour yoghurt balls called kurut that Uzbeks
love to
eat. Vendors carrying pails of these balls walk through public
buses and business is horrifyingly brisk.
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