Samarkand to Tashkent: Beautiful Train Journey in Uzbekistan
After spending some time in Samarkand, now I'm on my way to Tashkent the capital of Uzbekistan. I'm going by train, and it's a great train journey on the cross roads of Central Asia. the train ticket cost only $6 USD from Samarkand to Tashkent.
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Travel to Uzbekistan - The highlights
A journey along the ancient Silk Road to Khiva, Buchara, Samarkand and Termez.
A Tourist's Guide to Tashkent, Uzbekistan
From Bishkek, we fly into the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, once an important trading stop on the Silk Road. After checking into the International Hotel Tashkent, we set off to the see the sights:
1. Tashkent TV Tower
2. Bodomzor Metro Stop
3. Monument of Courgage
4. Turkistan Concert Hall
5. Memorial Square and Eternal Flame
6. Independence Square and Presidential Palace
7. Craft Market
8. Amir Timor Square
9. Hotel Uzbekistan
10. Mustallik Maydoni Metro Stop
11.Alisher Navoi Metro Stop
12. Chorsu Bazaar
13. Islamic School
14. Shit Bar
15. Siesta Restaurant
Uzbekistan life: The Buddhist legacy of Termez
At the southern-most tip of Uzbekistan, Termez has a long and rich history. It was once at the heart of Buddhism in Central Asia and also one of the stops on the ancient Silk Road.
Importantly it is home to the Fayaz Tepa temple a marvel of its Buddhist past. This monastery dates back more than 2,000 years to the Kushan dynasty. It was one of the most multicultural empires of its time and the region played a key role in the spread of the Buddhist religion.
Many wall paintings and sculptures d…
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Visit Uzbekistan, exploring Tashkent city. One day trip in Tashkent with Sally.
Hi guys Sally here,
Not many know Uzbekistan is a country located in Central Asia, its new to the world of the tourism.
Originally I am Uzbek myself and I know that tourism just started to develop and now there are more and more tourists arriving for visit.
If you are visiting Uzbekistan for the first time, then my advice is to book everything through travel agency. Airport, transfers, tours with guides. Uzbekistan is not yet English friendly country and its a little bit complicated to travel on your own if you don't know Russian.
Not many places have English signs (very few). Not everyone speaks Russian.
To travel comfortably by cab download Yandex Taxi application, we do not have Uber.
If you still decided to visit Uzbekistan, especially Tashkent city (that's what video is about) on your own then this video with main city attractions is for you.
So far most popular tourist spots in Tashkent city are:
- City Center which starts with Amir Temur Square, Uzbekistan Hotel, Quranti, Broadway, Amir Temur Museum. All places are located near each other. And you can walk from one to another.
- Independence Square, Mourning Mother Monument, Eternal Fire
- Courage Monument
- Drujba Narodov or Friendship Square with Friendship Monument
- Old Town which has Khast Imam and Khazrati Imam complex, Kukeldash mosque
- Chorsu bazaar is one of the biggest bazaars in part of Old Town.
I hope this was helpful, and leave your comments about my video!
If you finally decided to visit and you want to go with travel agency services do not hesitate to contact me on my email latitotravel@gmail.com.
Surkhandarya: stunning landscapes of Uzbekistan
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Do you want to make a journey through time that will get you to a secret place that keeps the memory of culture of Greek and Baktrian and Kushan kingdoms, heathen ceremonies of fire-worshippers, and shaman cults?
Trade caravans traveled here through Iron Gates in the narrow mountain canyon for thousands of years. Armies of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane passed through this area.
The cave Teshik-Tash, where remains of Neanderthal people were found, is worldwide known. Mural paintings of magical bull-hunting of Mesolite Era may be seen nearby in Kugitang Mountains. All these are BOYSUN.
It will take you just two hours drive from Termez towards the Boysun Mountains and you will find yourself in quite a different world, where centuries-old customs and culture of local people remained almost unchanged.
Names of villages such as Rabat, Derbend, Padang, Kofirun sound like magical music promising travel into a fairy tale. And you will get it, crossing the hot desert steppes at foothills of Boysun Mountains. Walnut, plane tree groves are superseded by archa forests. Alpine glades that cover the land as an emerald carpet are pleasant to the eye. Crystal water of mountain rivers creates a specific microclimate have a wholesome effect on everything living. In spring dekhkans (peasants) cultivate the land, using methods of their ancestors: they lay the furrows leaning against the horsed plow. And this is not an exotics, but real life.
Tajikistan border to Uzbekistan (To Tashkent) Part 25
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Tashkent (Tashkent, city of stone)
Tashkent, ex-Soviet Central Asia’s largest city (pop. 4,5 million), does not get a lot of love from the traveling community. With its monumental city planning and endless traffic jams, Tashkent fails to live up to the image of Uzbekistan conjured up in tourist brochures focused on Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva.
If you are entering and leaving Uzbekistan through Tashkent, we recommend you get out of the city soon after your arrival. Tashkent is best visited on the way back, when you might care to eat something other than plov and somsa and might actually even welcome a bit of big-city buzz; in this respect Tashkent serves as a halfway house between your holiday experience and the world back home.
Also, the museums make more sense after you have visited the places where the art came from.
History: It does not seem so at first sight, but Tashkent is an old city. A fertile oasis fed by the Chirchik river, bringing meltwater from the Tien Shan mountains nearby, settlement probably started more than 2000 years ago. Once called Chach, then Shash, the city got its current, Turkic name from its Karakhanid rulers in the 10th century:
Half a century later Tashkent still retains much of that Soviet spirit. Broad avenues lined by oak trees take aim for imposing solitary buildings in manicured surroundings. Although many Russians and Jews left after independence, people with roots from all across Eurasia can still be seen knocking melons and squeezing tomatoes at the bazaar. A sense of forced peacefulness and security are pervasive amidst the gentle splash of fountains.
Central Tashkent is the area roughly between metro stops Kosmonavtlar and Oybek in the south, Amir Timur Square in the center, and north up to Bodomzor metro station between Amir Timur street and the Anhor canal. Here you will find most museums and monuments as well as the best restaurants and hotels in Tashkent.
Surkhandarya: Flamboyant region of Uzbekistan
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Surkhandarya region is located in the southern part of Uzbekistan, this is a special, wonderful land with a wide variety of landscapes. Thanks to a favorable geographical location the civilization in these places flourished since ancient times and numerous historical changes have left a unique touch to local cities.
The everyday life of Baysun residents strikes tourists with its special color, it is studied by many historians and ethnographers. Houses here are decorated with locally carpets called suzane, national costumes are decorated with unusual ornaments that are embroidered by hand. To serve the tables they also use locally produced and painted dishes.
Local people carefully preserved the folklore traditions in its original form passing them from generation to generation. Weddings, funerals, births and celebrations are accompanied by original and vivid rituals that exist only in this area. Here, any important event in the life of people is accompanied by a complex ritual songs and dances. The Muslim mentality, which displaced from the minds of Uzbeks many pagan traditions, did not affect the local residents that much and who still perform make-it-rain ritual, picking-up mountain tulips celebration and many other rituals.
The value of Baysun's traditions is so great that this region was listed by UNESCO in 2001 in Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, which included only 19 cultural and historical areas around the world.
Not far from Baysun is the Surkhan Reserve, which is aimed to preserve the diversity of the region's fauna and flora. Here, tourists can touch the real fossils left by dinosaurs that lived in this area millions of years ago. Neolithic and Mesolithic drawings of ancient people are found in the local rocks.
Climbing the mountains, tourists can visit Teshik-Tash cave, which is known all over the world thanks to the remains of a Neanderthal child found here in 1938, the reconstruction of which is one of the most recognizable images of an ancient man in the world. For a long time, it was believed that the remains belonged to the boy, but later studies discovered new facts - in fact, the skeleton belongs to the girl 8-10 years old. The animal bones found nearby suggest that it was not just a burial, but a real funeral ritual. According to the reconstruction by Russian anthropologist M. A. Gerasimov, a sculptural portrait was created, which is kept in the Termez Museum.
Nearby is the cave of Amir Temur, but research works are not possible at the moment because of the constantly crumbling rock. Legends say that the saber of one of the greatest commanders of Uzbekistan is buried in this cave.
The mountain ranges around Baysun are a real storehouse of stories and legends. One of them is also related with the cave, which is called Zarautsay. As the rumor says, here are hidden the treasures of the famous navigator and traveler Marco Polo. He was going to save them from robbers who attacked his caravan while following the Silk Road. So far treasures were not found, but the researchers discovered ancient writings on the walls, dated from various periods - from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age.
Another legend is about saint Omonkhona spring that is visited by pilgrims from all over Uzbekistan to drink its soul-cleansing water, which has medicinal properties. The water of the source heals indeed, since it is mineralized naturally and cures diseases of the liver and kidneys.
Baysun is the beautiful mountainous wild land, the lost world of medieval villages and titanic landscapes. In fact, this is a whole country, where it would be worth spending a few days and will undoubtedly leave one of the strongest impressions of Central Asia.
Historical Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is significantly rich in history where Samarkand was conquered by Alexander the Great. Islam was introduced by Arabs in the 8th-9th century. In the early thirteenth century, that state was invaded by Mongols, led by Genghis Khan. Uzbekistan is proud home to a spellbinding arsenal of architecture and ancient cities, with the fascinating history of the Silk Road. In terms of sights alone, Uzbekistan is Central Asia's biggest draw and most impressive showstopper.
Uzbekistan is also an extremely friendly country where hospitality remains an essential element of daily life. We were genuinely welcome by all people we met during the journey.
Khiva: gateway to the desert in Uzbekistan - Life
On the threshold of the desert in Uzbekistan ==Khiva==
maintains traditions dating back thousands of years. There is plenty to discover in this age-old city and the ancient fortresses of the Kyzyl-Kum desert.
As a centre for slave caravans it was an intimidating place and a by-word for exhausting desert journeys. Today it's a welcoming 'museum city', where 3,000 residents keep alive the charm of ancient traditions.
Nowhere else has such a desert aura. Kiva's old town,
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