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Forty kilometers from Samarkand is a holy place, which attracts hundreds of pilgrims every year.

Not far from Ark there is a complex of richly decorated mosque, small minaret and basin called Bolo-Khaus Complex. The mosque was built 300 years ago by wife of a wealthy Emir.

One of the most famous madrasah of the Islamic world Madrasah Mir-i-Arab is located on the Kalyan forum square in Bukhara and represents a part of its architectural ensemble.

There are 72 species of river & lake fish on the territory of the Republic – salmon, whitefish, carp, sturgeon, vulnavia, catfish, perches, snake & other rogachkova, golovachova, and flatfish.

For those who are not arranged to independently get their food, armed with spinning rods and marsh boots in the vast expanses of Uzbekistan, we advise going fishing in Chimgan

One of the madrassas with the most gorgeous decoration is Tilla Kori Madrassa at Registan Square in Samarkand. Astonishing in its beauty, makhrab of the mosque is decorated with golding painting

The greatest long-livers on earth are relict trees. Man dies, palaces collapse, dynasties fade into oblivion, eras change one another, the earth's topography changes - and only the big trees stand in their former place.

And here is another amazing place in Uzbekistan, for those travelers who are not looking for the beaten track...

Shah-i-Zinda (Persian: شاه زنده meaning “The Living King”) Ensemble is one of the world-known necropolis of Central Asia, which is situated in the north-eastern part of Samarkand in Uzbekistan.

When we reached Rukhabad, we heard an amazing prayer – azan. Azanchi was calling all believers for praying, its sound filled the whole Gur- Emir Square.