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An Uzbek Odyssey: On to Bukhara
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An Uzbek Odyssey: On to Bukhara

It's hard to not feel a magnetic attraction to this city that belongs in a book of fairy tales.

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May 04, 2023
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Samarkand was a place I felt a sense of belonging to, so it wasn’t easy for me to leave the city, but my journey on the Silk Route was just beginning. For the 217-km journey to Bukhara, I took the bullet train that was built by a Spanish company. Trains always run on time in Uzbekistan, and as I saw the train leave the temperate zone of Samarkand and he…

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