​UZBEKISTAN 2
I travelled from Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan by road in the 1990s and returned in the fall of 2017.

​The spectacular-looking Arc, a royal town-with-in-a-town, is Bukhara's oldest structure, occupied from the 5th century right up until 1920, when it was bombed by the Red Army.*

Khiva's name, redolent of slave caravans, barbaric cruelty, terrible desert journeys and steppes infest with wild tribesmen, struck fear into all but the boldest 19th-century hearts.*​​

Hazrat-Hizr Mosque: The 8th-century mosque that once stood here was burnt to the ground by Chinggis Khan in the 13th century and was not rebuilt until 1854.​

​*These captions are from Central Asia -- Lonely Planet's travel guide.





























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