I finally arrived at Tashkent Airport for my late night flight home and was dreading the insanity of intense Uzbek security at train stations and airports. First you go thru a checkpoint before you can even walk to the terminal building where they checked my passport and ticket.After that was a security screening to enter the terminal building. They started checking my cameras and made me take them out of their case.The terminal building was actually quite nice, ...

Our next stop finally winding our way slowly to the airport was to the Polish Roman Catholic Church. I'm told there is also a German Church which they call a Temple. I'd already visited the Russian Orthodox Church this morning.The Catholic Church is impressive as you drive up with a very gothic exterior. It was built during WWI but I dont know the full story. We were fortunate to reach here just before the sun started going downNo photography was allowed inside b...

We still had lots of time to kill before my late night flight home so we next drove to the Earthquake Memorial. I'm told this was another popular venue for wedding couples to take photosThis sounded strange, why would you want to take your photos next to an earthquake memorial? As we arrived there was a long stretch limo with a giant model returning after a photoshoot.The monument was simple enough showing a soldier rescuing a mother and child when the earthquake...

Leaving Amir Timur Square and Museum we still had lots of time to kill before my 10.50pm flight back to Korea. We then drove to a Freedom Memorial park against Soviet oppression. I was quite curious what this was about since nobody had really talked about Soviet oppression during my tripThe park is opposite the Tashkent tower which we could see on our drive up. If I had more time I could have gone up but decided not to today. Perhaps on a future visit back.The pa...

Back at street level outside the Amir Timur Museum is a giant ringed road plaza with a large statue of Timur mounted on a horse. This statue has changed over the years from Lenin, Stalin, and now Timur.The plaza faces some historic buildings. On one side is the original central bank building. There are also some modern conference halls.To the top of the plaza is Hotel Uzbekistan. This was built in Soviet times and I'm told isnt that nice to stay in.There are also...