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 Which one shall we see? by TheWanderingCamel
The monthly programme on this billboard includes The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Evgeny Onegin, Faust, Carmen and more - an operatic feast indeed.
Performances start very early, 6 or 7 oc'clock, depending on the day. Tickets are available from the ticket booth tucked away in one of the facade pillars. Buy your ticket there - hotels and travel agents will mark them up considerably. You will be shown to your seat by one of the somewhat bossy usherettes, who may have an English translation of the programme for sale. Leave a Comment Address: Ataturk Street
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 City scenes by TheWanderingCamel
If you arrive in Uzbekistan by air, you will land here, the only city with an international airport. Do allow yourself a couple of days at the very least to get to know the city. It may not have the allure of Samarkand or the romance of Bukhara, but it is both interesting and attractive with good museums, a huge and bustling market, lovely parks, one of the only two functioning madrassas in Uzbekistan and a charming, unhurried air about the wide tree-lined avenues of the new city. Behind the Choysu market you'll find the quiet lanes and alleyways of the remnants of the old city and in the streets around the opera house booksellers and newstands have stalls set up under the trees. The metro system (the only one in Central Asia) makes it easy to get around, and taxis are cheap. Most of the main sights are within an easy stroll of one another. Leave a Comment
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 Camel train by TheWanderingCamel
Samarkand was famed for its beauty long before Temur made it his capital in1370 but it is the buildings that he and the short-lived Timurid dynasty he founded left behind that leave the visitor awed with their splendour and majesty. The great monuments of Samarkand were all built within a few decades, after that power moved from here to Bukhara and the city sank in to a decline that saw it isolated and neglected for centuries.
Soviet expansion brought new life to the city and an enthusiastic (if sometimes questionable) restoration of the magnificent mosques, madrassas and mausoleums that give today's tourists a glimpse of what a magnificent place this must have been. Only a few remain, the palaces, caravanserais and domed trading halls have all disappeared but, sit in the square of the Registan as the setting sun casts deep shadows and turns the glazed ceramic facade of the Shir Dor Madrassa in the Registan Square to molten gold and you cannot help but murmur to yourself:
"When shadows pass gigantic on the sand
And softly through the silence beat the bells
Along the Golden Road to Samarkand"
J E Flecker, 'Hassan"
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 Faith and trade by TheWanderingCamel
The 19th century British stateman and Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, called Bukhara "the most interesting city in the world" and among Muslims it was known as 'the Holy, the Noble, the Dome of Islam".
Those days of glory are long gone, but there can be no doubt that Bukhara remains one of the most romantic cities anywhere in the world. From the massive walls of the old citadel - known as the Ark, to the fabulously tile-bedecked and domed buildings standing cheek by jowl all around the old city, centering on the lovely mulberry-tree ringed pool of the Lyab-i Khauz where the old men still gather to while away the days with talk and maybe a game of chess, Bukhara quietly holds on to the ways of life that have prevailed here through invasion, decline and its latest incarnation as the restored trading centre of the country as tourism brings new customers to its ancient trading domes and the small shops that fill the cells of the madrassas where once young men studied the Koran. The city's importance as a religious centre is renewed as well, with the biggest of Central Asia's seminary attracting students and Muslim visitors alike.
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 Khiva's tallest minaret by TheWanderingCamel
The minaret is 146 feet high, just 6 feet short of Central Asia's tallest, the Kalon minaret in Bukhara. Climbing the 118 stairs will give you a fantastic view of the surrounding country, but if, like us, you are there in 38 degs of heat, you may not feel up to it!
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 The Great River by TheWanderingCamel
Transoxiania - the land across the Oxus - was the historical name for the vast region stretching from the edge of the known world of Persia and the Ottoman Empire into the great void of Asia - lands of desert and steppe lying before the mysterious world of China. The wealth of precious materials that came out of these lands via the caravans of Silk Route was enormous, wonderfully exotic and much sought after but few people managed to make their way to the great cities east of the river. Those that did brought back tales of green and fertile oases in the desert filled with wondrous buildings, beautiful gardens, fabulous bazaars - and great cruelties. To cross the Oxus was to enter another world.
Even today, whether you call it the Oxus or the Amu-Darya, crossing the great river is a step into that other world. The excesses of the ancient khans are long gone but Central Asia still has the power to enchant those who make the journey to discover these ancient lands for themselves.
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 Temur's mausoleum by TheWanderingCamel
He lies there surrounded by two of his sons his grandson and his spritual mentor. No doubt he died thinking his dynasty would last for ever - in reality it was to fade away in a remarkably short space of time and, in little more than a hundred years, the last of his descendants to hold power over Transoxiana was living in exile in India (where he became the founder of the great Mughal empire) and the golden age of Samarkand's power and glory was gone.
leyle Leave a Comment Address: Near Umarov StreetDirections: Nearthe Samakand Hotel - you really can't miss it.
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Samarkand by TheWanderingCamel
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 Timur the Lame by TheWanderingCamel
Born in the shadow of the Pamir mountains in the town of Shakhrisabz in 1336, he made Samarkand his capital and from there, in successive campaigns that saw his armies conquer lands as far away as Moscow and Delhi, Baghdad and Constantinople , his name struck fear into all who heard it. During his reign, Samarkand , already a beautiful and important city on the Silk Route, began to acquire the mosques and madrassas that still bring glory to its name but when he died in 1404 his great empire began to shrink almost immediately. Within 50 years his lands had fallen to the Turk but his grandson had fled to India to become the first of the Mughal rulers there.
Timur's statue has replaced those of Lenin and Marx as Uzbekistan reclaims its own proud history.
leyle Leave a Comment Address: Amir Timur statue -TashkentDirections: The statue stands in the small park known as Amir Timur Square at the end of the pedestrian street , Broadway.
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 Ulug Beg by TheWanderingCamel
A deep narrow chamber in the ground reveals the underground section of the huge quadrant that formed part of the astrolabe used to take the measurements that enabled these calculations to be made. A small museum sets out information about the observatory and Ulug Beg's life and nearby there is the grave of the Russian archaeologist whose dedication to the task led to the rediscovery of the observatory in 1908.
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