We left Bukhara around 8:00am for the approximately five hour drive to Samarkand. As we were leaving the outskirts of the city, Umid pointed out a sedara on the side of the road and we had to stop for a picture. Sedaras were watering holes along the Silk Road, basically cisterns built to catch rainwater or a well dug from a spring, fitted with a roof over it to minimize water loss… Read More