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We left Samarkand around 8am for the five hour drive to Tashkent, our last stop on our 16 day odyssey. Admittedly we were all a bit tired and subdued— we had been keeping quite a pace for the last two weeks. However we had one last night in Tashkent to spend together and with Umid, our guide, who did a marvelous job taking care of us and sharing his country and its… Read More
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
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