What is the allure of Uzbekistan, Lebanon and Egypt?” Friends question what in God’s name we’re doing visiting a post-Soviet state in Central Asia; a post-Civil War country bordering Syria and Israel; and a post-Arab Spring country in the north of Africa. iscovery of the ancient Silk Road draws us to Uzbekistan in …
eoul! Well worth the fifty-minute drive from Incheon into the city on our stopover between Sydney and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, (somewhere north of Afghanistan). We’re retracing steps along the old ‘Silk Road for a week from Tashkent and down to Samarkand and Bukhara. What we experience in one morning in this …