Bukhara Travel Guide

 Trekki Says:  Some hundred metres east of the Arkis Bukhara’s old prison – the Zindon.This is where prisoners have been held until the Emir dispensed “justice” – mostly execution rather than reprieve. It is a museum now and witness of the cruelty, the prisoners had to endure here. Their... 

 nepalgoods Says:  Lyab-i Hauz Complex is located at the border of the Old Town or should I say "at the entrance"? The heart of the old Town with the famous Mosque Kalan is not far. Some covered bazaars form the entrances to the inner part of old Town. Many merchants and pilgrims used to visit... 

 nepalgoods Says:  The Lyab-i Hauz- Complex is a nice ensemble of two Medreses and a Mosque around a big pond.According to a legend Imam Kulikhan couldn’t begin the construction he had planned because the house of a lonely widow, who refused to leave, occupied the area. The ruler decided to... 

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 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... 

 TheWanderingCamel Says:  In most cities, a place as historic and interesting as Bukhara's 16th C Sarrafon Hammam would be either a functioning hammam (bath-house) or a tourist attraction. Given that most of Bukhara's historic buildings are now all part of the great Bukhara Bazaar, you could also... 

 TheWanderingCamel Says:   Suzanis - the traditional large embroidered wall-hangings from Bukhara -are regarded as some of the finest handwork of this kind in the world and the choice is truly bewildering. Typically they are worked in silk on either handwoven cotton (karbos) or linen (biaz) in... 

 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... 

 toonsarah Says:  In the Tok-i-Zargaron or Jewellers’ Trading Dome is this wonderful stall selling spices and herbs. The smell that wafts towards you as you approach is truly enticing, and the display a photographer’s, and cook’s, delight! On our visit we were given what the owner, Mirfayz,... 

 TheWanderingCamel Says:  Whilst there's some debate as to when Jews first arrived in Bukhara (some say as far back as the reign of Cyrus in the 5th C BCE , others the 14th C CE following forced expulsions from elsewhere in Central Asia), they were, for hundreds of years, an integral part of trade... 

 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... 

 TheWanderingCamel Says:  Just as Christianity has a tradition of the Christ's disciples travelling far and wide to spread the word of the Gospels, Islam has a tradition of the descendants of the Prophet and his companions doing the same thing to spread the word of Allah. It was the four brothers Abu... 

 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:  Looking at these marvellous photos, you could be excused for thinking they are modern day set-ups, people dressed and posed in vintage dress and settings. They're not - they are in fact entirely authentic, even to the colour. They were taken by Tsar Nicholas II's...