A sightseeing and relaxing day in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Bukhara (also spelled Bokhara, Bukhoro, or Buxoro) in Uzbekistan historically one of the great trading cities along the Silk Road. The city is a Unesco Heritage site. In Sanskrit the word Bukhara means "abbey". Bukhara, "The city of museums", contains more than 140 architectural monuments of the Middle Ages. Such buildings as Poi - Kalan, Kosh Madras, mausoleum of Ismail Samoni, minaret of Kalyan and other...

The management at our hotel in Bhiva kindly arranged an early breakfast and we got away just before 7am to try avoid the heat of the day. There is about 270 miles to do however. We rode out of the walled city and after a few miles of rough roads and sunday street markets, we get onto the main road to Bukhara, a lovely dual carriageway - heaven! There are loads of petrol stations, so reports of lack of fuel are obviously wrong. After about 150 miles we enter into...