Cute lovely Uzbek pottery that adorn the courtyard of the Old Bukhara Resraurant

 

A modern mobile Tandooti oven

Plov a la Old Bukhara Restaurant. It's vegetarian and the strips are yellow carrots. More details of Plov will come in a later post

Mausoleum of the 14th Century Sufi saint Bahal al-Din Naqshband, founder of what became one of the largest Sufi orders, the Naqshbandi

How Naan is prepared and perforated before baking. Naan is a critical part of Uzbek cuisine and we had it for lunch.

Potter at work where we stopped for lunch on the way from Bukhara to Samarkand.

A caravanserai which has been preserved. They are common in the Silk Road and some have been converted to hotels too.

 The first pub in Pub Street, Samarkand, we went to top up beer and pub grub,

The pub grub served here is skewered and heated up when ordered. Not to put on more, we opted for vegetables. 

A schematic of the empire of Amir Temur, the founder of Uzbekistan.

A genealogy of the Timurid Family. One of his 9th generation great-grandsons, Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, built the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. 

The golden niche in which Amir Temur is interred.

A golden dome in the mausoleum,

Shot taken in the inner courtyard of the Gur-e Emir (mausoleum of the great Emir Temur aka Tamerlane).