The emir's decorating taste was lavish anyways... especially for a summer palace.
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- Darkness and light
- Playing in the ruin
- Kyrk kyz ruins
- 40 wives
- I never promised you a rose garden
- Beyond Amu-Darya - Afghanistan!
- Late July reading links
- Border-zone?
- Al-Hakim at-Termezi
- Kara-tepe
- Fayoz-tepe
- Tracing my steps - Uzbekistan II
- Harsh landscapes
- South to Termez
- Kok-Gumbaz interior
- Shahrisabz
- White Palace - Aksaray
- Amir Timur
- Over the mountains
- Samarkand market bustle
- Bread from Samarkand
- More Bibi-khanym
- Bibi-Khanym, a closer look
- Cracks on the inside
- Bibi-Khanym
- More Middle East reading in an eventful July
- Sher-i Dor medressa
- Restoration incomplete
- Lions!
- Understanding Uzbekistan?
- Tilla-Kari medressa
- Soviet cupola
- Inside Ulugbek
- Ulugbek medressa
- Back to the Registan
- Guri Amir - Timur's mausoleum
- Shah-i-zinda tiles again
- Blue tile explosions
- Lots of reading - Middle East
- Shah-i-zinda
- Shah-i-zinda - the living shrine
- Ulugbek observatory
- Samarkand cemetery
- Doors in Samarkand
- Titbits of Samarkand
- Bibi-Khanym (just a peek)
- Bridging the divide?
- Total market makeover
- More Registan
- In awe of the Registan!
- Water my camels
- Conjuring the emir of Bukhara
- Uzbek baroque
- The summer palace of the Emir of Bukhara
- The emir's peacock
- Reading in the summer
- Old Bukhara quarters
- Nadir Divanbeki complex
- Kukeldash medresa
- Carpet museum
- Reminiscences of Jewish Bukhara
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