DESTINATION/ Uzbekistan: The Oasis of Peace

Curious about the world’s most thrilling oasis? The land of the Uzbeks invites you. Uzbekistan fascinates with over 4000 oriental monuments and four unique world heritage centers, seducing with the traces of the ancient Silk Road and the aura of the spirits of Avicenna (Abu Ali Husayn ibn Abdallah ibn Sina: 980-1037), the Persian scholar, lexicographer, physician, philosopher, musician and poet, or Muhammad Al-Khorezmi (783-850), the Central Asian mathematician, astronomer, historian, geographe...

Uzbekistan is a country in the Central Asia that borders with Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. It is one of the two countries in the world, which is separated from ocean at least by two boundaries, it is the heart of the East, and in ancient times this area was of strategic importance – those who conquered the land became the emperors. Ancient Khorezm and Sogdiana spread from plains to mountains, from desert to oasis, had always attracted Rome and Byzant...

Uzbekistan, hmm… = Afghanistan and Pakistan? Uzbekistan as a republic and as a unique and distinct nation exists only since 1924, the time of creation of “New Asia” or the manufacturing of nations by the soviet government (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan etc.). Therefore, from the etymological point of view, the phenomenon of “uzbekistan” has appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. The truth is that when mentioning Uzbekistan most of western p...

Somewhat off the beaten path of the Great Silk Road in Uzbekistan, travelers can sample life as the Uzbek people's nomadic ancestors did – in yurts. Beyond the ancient cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khiva, beyond the pulsating capital city of Tashkent, a trip to the desert steppe for a stay in an authentic yurt makes the Uzbekistan travel experience complete. A yurt, a portable tent-like structure with a lightweight wooden lattice frame and walls of animal skins or furs, is an icon o...