Dehradun, March 16 -- Bukhara-Past & Present.

All Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

We knew the Central Asia adventure in the 'Stans' was approaching its end when our train slowly came to a halt at Bukhara station. We had planned just a day in Bukhara and another in Tashkent before we took our flight out of Tashkent and back to India. This is since most of our time in this trip was kept for the mountains, deserts, forests and grasslands of Central Asia. But both these ancient (and yet modern) Silk Route cities didn't disappoint, in fact far from it. Bukhara did something I had hoped all such ancient Uzbek cities would do, which is not to have too much of a 'paint job' done and not to 'refurbish' the ruins so well so as to ...