Tag: Metalwork
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Day 19
Samarkand, Uzbekistan File this under translation almost correct Emir Timur Mausoleum The internet hardly needs my photos. But I do like capturing the image of a famous place as seen from an ordinary view, like this: Timur spared women and children. Genghis Khan allowed children half the height of a wagon wheel to live. When…
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Day 14
Khujand, Tajikistan An introduction to Tajikistan We crossed borders from Uzbekistan to Tajikistan. Khujand is the City of Almonds. Went without internet connection much of the time in Tajikistan (outside the hotel). Like each of the stans we visited, we happened to be there for their 35th Anniversary of Independence. Below are notes quoting our…
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Alexander the Great, Archeology, Border War, Central Asia, Emomali Rahmon, Farm workers collective, Fortress, Great Patriotic War, History, Independence Day, Khujand, Kick wheel, King Solmoni, Metalwork, Museum, Musical instruments, Oxus River, Pomegranate, silk road, Stone cutting, Syr Darya, Tajikistan, Timur, Transoxiana, travel, Urunhodzhaev, Urunkhojaev
