A walking tour of Bukhara!

We left Samarkand for an easy 280k drive to Bukhara were we had a city tour arranged for the afternoon.

The drive today was through farming land for almost the entire trip so we had cotton harvesting everywhere and plenty of roadside grape and melon stalls. It is 4years since I drove through this road on the 2010 P to P but I have noticed that the quality of the farming has improved greatly especially with the cotton.

The highlight of the drive for a couple of tech heads was the fact that we drove past 2 planes in pieces packed on trucks going some where to be put together I guess.

On our arrival in Bukhara we spent 540,000 local Som on filling with fuel. This sounds a lot but in reality it was only $180.00 for 165 litres so cheap in fact. The attendant’s are always surprised at the amount of fuel we purchase each time; luckily we only do it every 2 or 3 days.

After lunch we departed on the city tour with our local guide to visit the important cultural and historic sites of Bukhara. I enjoyed the tour today a lot more then in Samarkand as yesterday I was too tired to understand and follow what was being said.

We started at a Mausoleum that was constructed in the late 9^th and early 10 century. And at one stage had been buried in sand to stop it being destroyed by raiders. The tour went on to various sites dating from all different times from the 4^th century mostly being Mosques and Madrasas. Then we ended the trip walking home through the Bazar and looking at some silk rugs being woven and mountains of them for sale.

It must be weeding season in Uzbekistan, as everyday there is wedding parties in the parks. Yesterday we saw 5 wedding parties in the one park and I saw on today in Bukhara while I had my Camera.

I let the photos talk about the day before we head of further west and north to an Archaeological dig site that Frank worked on a few years back.