The March Nawruz holiday (Persian New Year), timed with the Spring Solstice in Central Asia, meant I finally had a chance to visit Bukhara, one of the oldest cities in Uzbekistan which sat along the Silk Road. Luckily, I also had a friend living there, so after a three-hour sleeper train ride from Samarkand, I […]
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