Uzbekistan

A complete 7-day Uzbekistan itinerary: 3 days in Bukhara, 2 in Samarkand, plus Tashkent. Buses, trains, real prices and what to see in each Silk Road city.

Plan 2 perfect days in Samarkand: Registan, Shah-i-Zinda, Gur-e-Amir, Hazrat Khizr Mosque and where to eat. Prices, hours, GPS — start planning now.

How to spend one perfect day in Tashkent: applied arts museum, gorgeous metro stations, Chorsu Bazaar, ikat robes and the best plov. A ready route with maps and prices.

Shah-i-Zinda is Samarkand’s dazzling avenue of tiled mausoleums. History, the 40-steps legend, prices, hours and how to visit. Start planning your trip!

Gur-e-Amir, Tamerlane’s mausoleum in Samarkand: history, the gilded interior, the fluted blue dome, tickets, hours and how to get there before you go.

Complete Bukhara guide: 8 essential places — from the Ark Citadel and the Kalyan Minaret to the emir’s summer palace and the Chor-Bakr necropolis. Where to eat, what to buy, prices, opening hours.

My complete guide to the Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent — the 1907 Polovtsev house with painted halls, ceramics, suzani, ikat and lacquer.

Registan Square in Samarkand: three madrasahs, gold-leaf interiors, and night lights. My tips on timing, tickets, sunset views, and what not to miss.

Complete guide to Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa Palace 4 km from Bukhara — interiors, costume museum, the harem and a meeting with miniature artist Abror.

Chor-Bakr is a 16th-century memorial complex 5 km from Bukhara — a silent city of the dead of the Juybar sheikhs, with a mini-Kalyan minaret and almost no tourists.