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Tashkent Pages by rsleisk
| Page Views: 1,691 Last Visit to Tashkent: August, 2004 | Old world meets Russia by rsleisk - last update: Nov 17, 2004 |
Beautiful and exotic Tashkent Once an outpost along the Silk Road trade routes to the far east and most recently a former Soviet Republic make Tashkent a very interesting and exciting city offering a varied mix of cultures.
Where once Carl Marx and Lenin were revered Tamerlane has replaced them echoing back to Uzbekistan's ancient heyday.
Although my time was cut short there due to terrorist activities I was fortunate to have had local colleagues show me around.
I had orginally planned to also make a journey to Samarkand but with the recent events it was called off. I was able to get a glipse of this ancient city at the Tashkent museum where there were replicas of the famous temples as well as an indepth look into the rule of Tamerlane, or Amir Temur. |
| People's Friendship Square |
|  | This is Central Asia's largest performing arts complex the Friendship of Peoples Concert Hall. The tower is a lasting relic to Soviet times that depicts the 15 former Republics.
The statues in the foreground commerate the families that helped the many orphaned Uzbekistan children following WWII. |
| | This photo was taken in front of the blue-domed Oliy Majlis Uzbekistan Parliment building. We asked the guard if it was alright to take a photo for he seemed to be eyeing us. |
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| Pros: | "Good food, friendly people, inexpensive travel" | | Cons: | "Terrorist activities!" | | In A Nutshell: | "An interesting mix of the old world and post Soviet era." |
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Ann75 Mon Sep 8, 2008 23:23 UTC
Hi Scott! What a great place of a town I have never heard of, but it seems like you got a good taste of the local culture. It sounds like an interesting place to visit. Great tips of this place. Greetings ~ Ann | LKM1018 Fri Jun 13, 2008 13:43 UTC
Great pics and tips. I have friend who adopted a baby from Uzbekistan. Unfortunately they didn't have much time to see the sights. | VadimMyasnikov Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:15 UTC
wow! really like the pictures you took in Uzbekistan! greeting from here! | PierreZA Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:55 UTC
Great and interesting page, Pierre |
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