I’ll be honest – I’m a sucker for monuments and ruins. Indiana Jones was and still is one of my favorite movie series growing up and there’s just something about seeing some big, ruined, monumental thing left behind from some ancient…
A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Bukhara
Bukhara Welcome to Bukhara, where the history is just as rich as anywhere on the Silk Road. It is a city of scholars, and at one point it was the center of learning for the entire world. While the West was…
A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Samarkand
Samarkand Samarkand is old. Very old. As in, it is so old it could be featured in an episode of Doctor Who or in an Indiana Jones movie. This city, for many people, is the Silk Road. The minarets, the colorful tilework that…
A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Tashkent
Tashkent It’s really hard at first to figure out what to make of Tashkent. It’s a city of 2.3 million, with an odd blend of Russian and Uzbek influences, a growing restaurant, cultural, and nightlife scene, authoritarian Presidency, near police-state…