Pro
Beautiful Uzbek city with old Silk Road atmosphere all over
Con
dont know
In a nutshell
more impressive than Samarkand
TheWanderingCamel Says: Hidden away down some back streets to the east of the Lyab-i-Khauz, the quaint little building known as the Chor Minor (Four minarets) is neither a minaret nor a mosque. Nor is it particularly old, at least in the terms of what constitutes old here in Bukhara's Old city - it...
Silk Road Spices Tea House: Tea for two - or four - or six
TheWanderingCamel Says: Tea and spice having been the family trade for 600 years, it's no wonder spice master, Mirfayz Ubaydov, knew just how to go about setting up a teahouse when he opened the doors of what soon became Bukhara's favourite chaikhana back in 2005.The cool and softly lit teahouse is...
Bella Italia: Now for something completely different
TheWanderingCamel Says: Even the most dedicated salad-soup-and-plov-lover lover feels the need for something different occasionally, and after 10 days in Uzbekistan, we had reached that point so, on our first night on Bukhara we made our way to the Bella Italia. To my eye the restaurant looked more...
Selected dealers: Heirloom treasures
TheWanderingCamel Says: The streets of Bukhara may be lined with beautiful new suzani and silk scarves but find your way in to the handful of shops selling antique textiles and other heirloom pieces and you have found the real treasure. These are truly museum pieces - and their price reflects it. I...
TheWanderingCamel Says: Plov - Uzbekistan's version of rice pilaff - is the country's favourite dish. No celebration is complete without plov being served but, unlike Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas goose, it is also a dish that is eaten as often as can be - dinner being considered the proper time...
TheWanderingCamel Says: Of all Bukhara's holy sites, none ranks more highly than the Bakhauddin Nakhshbandi Ensemble, burial place and shrine of one Islam's most important saints, Khazreti Mohammed Bakhauddin Nakhshabandi, a founding Sufi, who was born near here in 1318 and was buried here when he...
TheWanderingCamel Says: More than 4000 petroglyphs, most of which date from the Stone and Bronze Ages are to be found etched into the black rock faces of the Sarmysh Gorge. A day's visit here will only give you time to see a mere handful of them but it will take you right away from the architecture...
TheWanderingCamel Says: The road from Bukhara to Samarkand has been known since ancient times as the Shokh Rokh - the Royal Road. A trip out to see the petroglyphs of the Samysh Gorge starts off along this road and although it's 150km to the gorge, much of it on very minor country roads, there are...
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