Bukhara and Samarkand

One of the fortresses in the desert… built from clay and bricks and about 2000 yrs old.They are truly beautiful and nobody goes there..!!

Cherries are in season, cost almost nothing [though "nothing" is still a fat wadge of notes ] and are sold on the side of the road everywhere on the way from Bukhara to Samarkand.You can see how lovely Uzbek people are .

When you ask for rice here……. They ask "how much do you want? One kilo? Half kilo?". Well it would be stupid to ask for a kilo……so here you have it…..half a kilo of rice…two meals for us! [ This was an experiment for us where we tried asking in Russian for something other than "yayitsa"..eggs…as the day before we had 3eggs each 3 times..an 18 egg day !.Is too much rice "plov"better than too many eggs ?]Even Jon was a bit intimidated by the size of this meal .

Bukhara and Samarkand are two amazing cities. The architecture just astounds you! This is part of the Registon building in Samarkand, Nic is with Bernardo and Marchello, we were going to cycle to Tashkent with them.

Just another of tiresome buildings that you have to drag yourselves out to see!