.I did NOT get arrested just detained. I spent a couple of hours running around replacing pictures. I have not got as meany as I had but I have got what I wanted and a few extras at first light that I didnt have before. When it was time to leave I walked to the road and hailed a taxi. The old bloke said he understood "train station" and we took off. He took me to the bus stop and it was full of taxi's. Those bottom feeding scum. I said "where are the trains?are t...

I spent today walking around to the other sights here. Bibi-Khanym mosque, named after one of Timur's wives. The place was finished in the early 1400s but collapsed in an earthquake in 1897. Recently restored. You do realise ALL the buildings here are highly restored. Some as recently as 2005. I will try to add some pics of bits thar are not restored, and , if you look carefully around the edges of the buildings you will sometimes see the old stuff. Shah-I-Zinda...

Ive been wanting to see the Registan since I first saw a picture of the place. The place is amazing and that is why you are getting a whole thread on it. They are supposed to be the oldest preserved medressa's in the world, anything older having been destroyed by our old mate Jenghis Khan. Emir Timur is pretty famous around here and so is his grandson Ulugbek. Between both of them they built, started or at least had something to do with most buildings around here...