A day in Samarqand (Uzbekistan) A good day, we did that touristy thing in the morning round the Rajastan and a selection of mausoleums, I thought the tiles were remarkable, they individually chop out the pattern for each tile and lay in the different coloured pieces, a huge amount of effort for each tile. Dena, the girl showing us around, certainly knew her stuff, the highlight for me was Tamalain's tomb which still has his original jade tombstone and apparently...

Bukhara (Uzbekistan) Samarqand (Uzbekistan) A pretty standard day, these roads are set up for tourists working the Bukhara to Samarqand to Tashkent route so they're not in a bad state, they do have loads of Speed Cameras though, all hiding in the trees so not easy to spot, luckily the locals know where they are so if you match their speed and hide behind them there is little chance of a problem. The GPS came into its own at the last minute when the road was cl...