4 articles tagged with bukhara
Standing beneath the turquoise domes of Samarkand's Registan Square for the first time, I understood why Alexander the Great called this region more beautiful than he'd imagined. After three decades of crisscrossing the globe as a flight attendant, I thought...
The morning call to prayer echoes across Bukhara's ancient skyline as I stand in Lyab-i-Hauz plaza, watching the first light illuminate the 16th-century Khanaka and Madrasa complex. The reflection in the central pool shivers slightly with each breeze, distorting the...
The first time I touched the intricately hammered copper of a Bukharan teapot, my machinist's fingers could feel the centuries of technique passed through generations. This wasn't just metal—it was history made tangible. Standing in the shadow of the ancient...
Standing beneath the turquoise dome of Mir-i-Arab Madrasa as the muezzin's call to prayer echoed across Bukhara's ancient skyline, I felt that familiar thrill of discovery that keeps drawing me to places off the typical tourist radar. *Guten Tag aus...