100.Uzbekistan 2013Once we landed in Tashkent and traded in our dollars for a suitcase full of soms, we were ready to tackle Uzbekistan's Silk Road.
First stop - Samarkand. The Registan and Shah-I Zinda are its star attractions but tearing into a loaf of Samarkand bread is a close second. We then headed to Bukhara via an overnight stop at a homestay in the Nurata mountains and another night nestled down in a yurt camp near Lake Aydarkul.
Bukhara, one of Uzbekistan's ancient walled cities, was next on our list. From there we went northwest to Khiva - another walled city inches away from the Turkmenistan border. Trips to the crumbling desert forts in the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan and the Igor Savitsky Museum in Nukus occupied many of our Khiva days.
