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Samarkand

idea for the trip to Samarkand fell suddenly and spontaneously in a few hours before the scheduled departure. Proposal submitted a Roman - PhD student from the Czech Republic, who also is on exchange in WIUT. The plan was as follows - rent a car with a driver and go at dawn to Samarkand, visit the sights in a few hours and later that same day to return to Tashkent. In the trip we were accompanied by Filip - Czech Republic, who arrived in Uzbekistan on the tennis tournament. I forgot to bring your passport, which could make us problems in the police stations, but it turned out that our driver is a retired police officer, whom everyone knew the way and lets go without any control samples.

Samarkand is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the Zi emi. The town was located on the famous Silk Road route from Europe to China, which contributed to its rapid development. In the first half of the thirteenth century, fell victim to invasions of Genghis Khan, but by the end of the fourteenth century became the capital of Tamerlane, who brought many artists, and made Samarkand a new look - full of pomp and wealth. The reign of Timurydów (descendants of Timur, or Tamerlane), in particular, his grandson is the time of greatest Ulugbek splendor of the city.

Samarkand is full of beautiful monuments: mausoleums, mosques and madrassas. All of them are subjected to continuous restoration, which restores their former glory. The buildings are very well decorated - especially when using a composition of mosaics and majolica.

First we turned our steps toward the Registan, a square surrounded on three sides by beautiful medresami. Registan in Farsi means "a place covered with sand" and in ancient times served as a market place. Surrounding the square madrassa is still the Soviet era kept under continuous renovation. From the outside they look very beautiful. I can imagine how they must shine in the rays of the setting or rising sun ... Unfortunately, this time was not given me a check because of the duration of our stay and the weather, about which I mention further. Inside the buildings can not see all to be restored - for example, targets on the second floor (the first has been turned into souvenir shops) and madrassah Ulugbek minarets. While exploring the policeman came up to us to offer the appropriate course for monetary gratification entrance to one of the minarets. After a hard negocjajcach, where he was champion Phil, we managed to win so bad and we took the sum of winding stairs to the top of the minaret, where unfolding is a beautiful view over the city and its monuments. The madrassa Shir Dar visited the small shop Afghan family, which deals with traditional weaving carpets.



Then we went towards the mosque and the mausoleum of Bibi-Chanum, which we visited but not inside, because of the lack of time. quickly went towards the mausoleum of Gur-i Mir, which are buried the remains of other Timur and Ulugbek. The building itself is very picturesque - covered with beautiful blue dome. From the tomb of Timur is linked to an interesting legend. It was opened June 21, 1941 by a group of Soviet archaeologists in the tomb bear inscriptions had preached: "Whoever opens this tomb will be defeated by an enemy more terrifying than I do." What happened on 22 June 1941 unless you do not need reminding;)

next target of our trip was complex of tombs, mausoleums-Shah-i Zinda. Also, an incredibly picturesque place, with beautiful tiled mosaics and majolica "corridor" formed by the built in two rows of mausoleums.

last point of the "program" was Ulugbek observatory, but only visited the outside.

conclusion, Samarkand has something amazing - a small space spread are beautiful buildings, full of color and light. It seems to me that this is the perfect place for a photographer, especially for low-hanging sun. Unfortunately, our entire stay was accompanied by rain and cold ... With each shot you had with your other hand to protect the camera from water: / If I had, however, compared with Khiva Samarkand, the latter wins ... It is just less commercial and tourist atmosphere, I can not say of Samarkand, where a man comes up every now and then tour the Italian, French or Japanese. Although this is only half of April ...