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Uzbekistan 2023

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Khiva

Islam Khoja Minaret

View to Kalta-minor Minaret

Kalta-minor Minaret

Kuhna Ark: the Khan's Palace/Citadel

Kuhna Ark Mosque

Tiled Mihrab (?)

Base for the khan's ceremonial yurt See, see, we are still really nomads!

Pavilion

Visiting Scotsman

Royal reception room (?)

Re-imagined Khanate Mint

View from Ark watch-tower

View over (restored) walls

View from Ark to Islom Hoja Minaret

Khiva: Toshhovli Palace

Toshhovli Palace ~1840

Toshhovli Palace: Khan's senior officers. 19th c

Toshhovli Palace

Toshhovli Palace: Throne Room

Impressive Throne Room ceiling

Khiva: Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum

View over Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum From Islom Hoja Minaret

Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum

Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum

Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum

Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum

Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum: Tomb

Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum + Islam Khoja Minaret

Around Khiva

Islam Khoja Minaret

Kalta Minor Mosque, from Islom Hoja Minaret

Kalta-minor Minaret

Juma Mosque Minaret

Juma Mosque interior A forest of wooden pillars

Juma Mosque: Mihrab

East Gate

East Gate, looking out

East Gate: Old Slave Market area

North Gate

West Gate

Walls, near West Gate

Islam Hoja Medressa

Islam Hoja Medressa: Courtyard

Sayid Allauddin Mausoleum, 14th c

Kutlug Murad Inaq Madrassah

Kutlug Murad Inaq Madrassah

Olden Times: A stoning

View from train, ~20 miles East of Urgench

Aral Sea Tour

Nukus to Moynaq

Karakalpakstan History Museum

Across the Oxus (Amu Darya)

Mizdakkhan Necropolis

Gyaur Kala mudbrick fortress (4th-14thc)

Moynaq

Scotsman + Beached Ship

Abandoned Fishing Fleet

Aral Sea Memorial

Aral Sea 1960 & 1973

Aral Sea 2006 & 2016

Driving across the Aral Sea bed and then the Ustyurt Plateau

Rain, 21 miles NW of Moynaq, on old sea bed

Our convoy, waiting for stragglers

Some of many oil & gas wells, on old sea bed

Approaching buffs up to Ustyurt Plateau

Snooty camel, 35m W of Moynaq

Ustyurt Plateau

Ustyurt Plateau canyon

Ustyurt Plateau canyon

Loyal, but muddy, Toyota Landcruiser

The Aral Sea, at the Yurt Camp

View down to Aral Sea

Aral Sea, just after dawn

Graham at the Aral Sea

Very muddy Yurt Camp

Very muddy Yurt Camp

Tashkent

Statue of Timur

State Museum of the Temerids

Assumption Cathedral

Assumption Cathedral

TV Tower (?)

State History Museum

The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan

Very Grand Lobby/Atrium

WWII poster

Soviet-era poster

15th c metal-strip armor

Timur

Timur receiving foreign ambassadors

Timur was the Cat's Pajamas

Tashkent Metro

Yonus Rajabiy Metro Station, with giant torches

Kosmomoavtlar Metro Station

Icarus

Sergei Korolev

Gagarin

Soyuz-Apollo

Many-domed Alisver Navoiy Metro Station

Traditional scenes at Alisver Navoiy Metro

Gafur Gulom Metro Station

Mustakillik Metro Station

Museum of the Victims of Repressions

Museum of the Victims of Repressions

Museum of the Victims of Repressions

One of the dreaded black cars used by the 1930s security police

An Interrogation

An Execution

"Tsarist Conquest of Central Asia and Struggle of the Local People Against the Invaders"

Moderl of Perm-36

Fortunately everything is wonderful nowadays.

Memorial "Memory of the Witnesses"

Mosques and Madressas

Khazrati Imam Mosque

Khazrati Imam Mosque minaret

Giant new mosque, under construction Beside the Khazrati Imam complex

Barakhan Madressa

Barakhan Madressa courtyard Now converted to tourist shops

Barakhan Madressa detail

Abu Bakr Kaffal Shashi shrine

Ko’kaldash Madrassi

Ko’kaldash Madrassi courtyard

Hoja Ahror Valiy Mosque

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