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Sunday, February 25, 2018

SHAHRISABZ, UZBEKISTAN: AK-SARAY PALACE AND AMIR TIMUR

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As we finished our visit to Kok Bumbaz Mosque in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan, in the distance we noticed two crumbling towers. They turned out...
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

SHAHRISABZ, UZBEKISTAN: KOK GUMBAZ MOSQUE, DORUT TILAVAT MAUSOLEUM, AND THE JAHONGIR-OMAR SHEIKH MAUSOLEUM

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Scheherazade, sometimes called Shahrazad, is the fictional wife of an Arabian sultan and the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights , ...
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Saturday, February 17, 2018

KAMASHI, UZBEKISTAN, PART 2: A MOUNTAIN DRIVE TO THE KATTA LANGAR MOSQUE

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The great philosopher Minnie Pearl (okay, so she wasn't a philosopher, but comedians tend to know more about life than a lot of people...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

KAMASHI, UZBEKISTAN, PART 1: FRIDA KAHLO MEETS FRED ASTAIRE

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On our second day in Uzbekistan, we took buses to a village named Kamashi. Adobe houses, some with windows and some without, some solitary ...
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Saturday, February 10, 2018

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN: A PERFORMANCE BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRADITIONAL UZBEK MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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On our first evening in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, we went to a concert in a small concert hall: It had been a very long day and we were ti...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN: HAST IMAM SQUARE AND A MAUSOLEUM, A MOSQUE, A MUSEUM, AND MORE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LOCALS

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Our next stop was Hast Imam Square,  the religious center of Tashkent. We stopped first at the Mausoleum of Abu Bakr Kaffal Shoshi , t...
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Sunday, February 4, 2018

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN: EARTHQUAKES, WARS, AND CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LOCALS

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We began our journey through Uzbekistan in the capital city of Tashkent, the most populous city in Central Asia (2.5 million people). Its ...
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