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Termiz Hotels: 6 Reviews - 4 Photos
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Temur's tomb

by TheWanderingCamel

Photo: A tomb for a tyrantThe Gur Emir, with its glorious blue melon-ribbed dome was not meant to house the body of Temur. He wanted to be interred in his home town of Shahrisabz but, just as Samarkand at that time was dominated by his presence in life, so it became with his death and the body of the "Ruler of Half the World" was placed in the crypt below the beautiful cupola with its 64 ribs covered in exquisite turquoise tiles. 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.Also in...

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Baths after hours!

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Kunjak bath is from XVI. century. Try it after hours when whole bath is for you! Just talk to an employee (russian needed). It's great experience and price is good. For two persons with private massages we paid approx. 15$.

The last minaret

by TheWanderingCamel

Soaring high above the ancient buildings of Khiva, the Islam Khodja minaret is actually the newest of all the buildings in this extraordinary place. Completed in only 1910, it was the last of the architectural wonders of all Central Asia's khanates to be built -and it too has a typically bloody history. Commissioned by a man renowned and loved for his generosity, it was not finished before he was assassinated and, in a final barbarous act, the architect was buried alive on the orders of the khan to cover up his own complicity in the benefactor's murder. Within 25 years of its completion, the world that allowed such barbarity, was gone, the khan deposed and the juggernaught of Sovietisation had rolled over Khiva. Within another 25 years, the walled city had been emptied of all its living inhabitants and turned into an open museum, inhabited only by the ghosts of the past. The end of the...

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Frozen in time

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Khiva's khans were a law entirely to themselves even as late in the 19th century when, like other rulers in this region, they became pawns in the Great Game of Central Asian diplomacy as Britain and Russia jockeyed for control over the lands to the north of India. The khanate of Khiva was particularly noted for the cruelty and barbarity of its rulers - tales of unspeakable acts against both their own subjects and foreigners abound. Assassinations and rebellions dogged the dying years of the khanate until it finally became part of Uzbekistan in 1924.This bloody history seems a million miles away from the hushed streets and exquisite buildings of the little city. An extraordinary minaret, banded with blue and green tiles, soars like a lighthouse stranded thousands of miles from the sea above the turquoise dome of the madrassa, now a museum, below. Glorious blue and white tiles in myriad...

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Walled desert city

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The walls of Khiva rise dun coloured out of their equally dun-coloured desert surroundings. They completely encircle this most remote, intact and untouched of all the ancient cities of Central Asia. To enter through the gates of Khiva is to step into a world that remained undisturbed by any form of modernity until late into the 19th century. Even after it came under Russian domination the walled heart of the city remained a mediaeval anachronism, unchanging and frozen in time. Declared a museum-city in 1967, its people were moved out and the city lost its soul for many years. Visitors then spoke of it being fascinating but sterile. Times have changed again and the city is slowly coming to life once more as people move back in to the houses within the walls.Children play in the streets and old men sit in the sun. The silent palaces are still museum pieces but more and more madressas have...

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Discover Tashkent

by TheWanderingCamel

Read the guidebooks and you would think Tashkent was a place to miss. Not so! 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, two functioning madrassas, a cluster of interesting old mausoleums near the University, a library holding what is acknowledged to be the oldest Koran in the world and a charming, unhurried air about the wide tree-lined avenues of the new city. Behind the Chorsu 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...

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Highlights of Bukhara

by TheWanderingCamel

Religion, royal power and trade - the cornerstones of Bukhara's existence - each one of which has left the city a legacy of stunning architecture - so many wonderful buildings in and around the city you could spend a week here and not see them all. What chance then of seeing any more than the highlights in the usual 1 or 2 days most tourists spend here? If you can keep each one you see distinctly in mind without reference back to some sort of aide-memoire (I find photos of signs very helpful for this) your memory is in much better shape than mine , but some will need no such jog to the grey matter, they are just so distinctive.The Ismael Samani Mausoleum in photo 1 (considered to be the most significant building in the city, both historically and architecturally) stands in isolation, its entire surface an intricate weave of otherwise unadorned brickwork that is quite unique. The Poi...

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Trade - Bukhara's lifeblood

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When you think there could not be room for another shop or carpet seller in Bukhara, or another little girl selling her wares outside a mosque - remember that trade has been the lifeblood of this city for centuries. Sitting fair and square at the crossroads of the great trading routs of the Silk Road, caravans from every city from China to Constantinople passed through here and while the scholars in their madrassas bent their heads over their texts, others in the city were wheeling and dealing from dawn till dusk and the city's khans were always full with the caravans of traders laden with goods from all points of the compass.Just as they are today, the bazaars and arcades to the north-west of the Lyab-i Khauz were stuffed with goods for sale. Only 3 trading domes remain of the dozens that once were here. Then each was dedicated to one particular trade - nowadays they are all much the...

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The heart and soul of Bukhara

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Situated at the very centre of Bukhara's Old City, the Lyab-i Khauz is a cool green oasis of ancient mulberry trees surrounding a large pool where ducks swim and teenage boys ocassionally show off by diving in. This is where the life of the ancient city continues as it has done for centuries. Old men sit in the shade with their friends watching and talking the days away. Children play on the statues of camels and have rubbed the ears and hooves of Hoja Nasruddin's ( the wise fool of Central Asian folk tales) donkey down to shiny brass. The chaikhanas are busy all day and into the evening with locals and tourists alike, drinking tea and eating plov. A cobbler sets his outdoor workshop up in one corner while in the shade of a madrassa wall an old man waits on a carpet to play chess with anyone who has an hour or two to spare. Little boys with mobile phones turn the tables on tourists by...

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"The holiest city in Central Asia"

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With hundreds of mosques and, at times, just as many madrassas in the city, Bukhara was once the most important religious centre in all Central Asia. Today, although just one madrassa remains open to students and few of the mosques function as places for prayer, Bukhara still holds its place as the spiritual heart of Uzbekistan with the country's most important religious shrine, the Bakhauddin Nakhshbandi complex (photo 1), drawing a constant stream of pilgrims . The Soviets barely tolerated religion and certainly discouraged religious observance and practice. Their response to the problem of such a large religious presence was to simply let the old city sit undeveloped and neglected in the hope that it would crumble back into the earth from which it was built. Just as the city survived and outlived the depredations of the invaders of the past, so too it has survived and outlived the...

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Lyabi-House Hotel Bukhara

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