Before we left Kokand, where we spent the night, and headed to Tashkent, we toured through the Khan’s palace.  The palace was built in the 19th century to serve as the governance seat for the Khan of Kokand.  In actuality there were three kingdoms in the Central Asia region, the Khanate of Kokand, the Khanate of Bukhara, and the Khanate of Khiva, before the Russian Czar Alexander came and conquered them at… Read More