Bukhara, Uzbekistan is known to be central Asia’s holiest city. The buildings in this ancient city are much more than a thousand years old! Back in the 16th century, Bukhara was a bustling market town on the Silk road route. because of this, numerous caravans came through here to trade goods at some of the numerous covered bazaars.
What the city of Bukhara looked like during its hay-day
As well as being a stop on the well-known trade route for shopping, Bukhara had numerous caravanserais, over 100 madrassas and over 300 mosques.
The Maghoki-Attar Mosque, the oldest mosque in all of central Asia
Today, the old town is still standing and hasn’t been over restored. numerous of the mosques, monuments and madrassas are still in fantastic condition. There are still numerous covered bazaars, but today, they are selling goods primarily for tourists.
Outside one of the numerous covered, dome-shaped bazaars
We spent 4 nights here and really delighted in wandering through the old town and imagining what life should have been like years ago.
The Mir-i Arab Madressa
We meandered through small lanes inside and outside of the old town. We shopped at the bazaars and found a ideal vantage point for viewing sunset.
The Po-i-Kalyan square, ideal spot for viewing sunset
We ate delicious sweets, smoked some sheesha and even found a small place selling hotdogs and draft beer! We met some terrific backpackers who were staying at our guesthouse and swapped travel stories and information.
Enjoying some espresso with views of the Po-i-Kalyan square
All in all, our time spent in Bukhara was really unwinding and wonderful. After two weeks in Uzbekistan, our time was up. We went to the market and found ourselves a shared taxi to take us to the border with Turkmenistan…which would show to be a very, very unusual country.
Time to go! Bye Uzbekistan, off to Turkmenistan
Stay tuned for our (mis)adventures in Turkmenistan!
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