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| Page Views: 2,084 Last Visit to Samarkand: August, 1991 | Samarkand, a tale city by SirRichard - last update: Nov 19, 2004 |
Samarkand is one of the mithic cities of the SILK ROAD, a city you imagine when reading the "1001 nights" tales.
We stopped there during a tour following places of the Silk Road, from Samarkand to Xian.
At that times (1991) it was still URSS, but the feeling was truly muslim, desertic... |
|  | Tiles and mosques Tiles are one of the things I remember the most of this city. Most of the mosques have facades beautifully adorned with blue and green mosaics and tiles, many with figurative motifs, something rather unusual in the muslim art. |
The people Uzbeks are a really warm and friendly people, though here the language is a barrier, as they spoke little (if any) english, at least in 1991... | | |
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BluBluBlu Wed Aug 31, 2005 09:53 UTC
Great pages J! Happy travels, Blu | jenniferchin Thu Sep 4, 2003 02:21 UTC
Wow ... and I only read about Samarkand in novels .... thank you for the glimpse :-) | maryamy Sun Jul 20, 2003 20:43 UTC
Great page! Did you know that Samarkand was once part of Persia and one stupid king gave it away as compensation, for he fought uselessly against the might Russian army of the time? | herzog63 Tue May 20, 2003 17:11 UTC
The Mosque at Registan Square is truly amazing! Only Hot water!! That is really weird! Samarkand sounds like it is off the beaten path! Anything on the Silk Road is so Exotic! |
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