Clare & Ross Central Asia

Saturday, 26 September 2015

Samarkand

We have left Bukhara by train for Samarkand. The landscape for the 200kms was a mixture of flat arid scrub land and irrigated corn and cotton. Small towns re dotted along the way, builtf rom mud bricks. Everyone has electricity.

Samarkand has amazing mosques and madrassas.

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