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 ( Tomb of the Living King) the Avenue of mausoleums. This place is amazing and I will not try to name all the mausoleums but they all date from the early 1300s. Some of Timurs family are buried here and Quasim ibn-Abbas a cousin of the Prophet Mohammed. The whole place was restored in 2005 but thet say the first mausoleum, Shadi Mulk Aka Mausoleum (1372) one of Timur's wives was such exceptional quality it needed little restoration.
On the way home I stopped at Guri Amir Mausoleum and Mosque. This is where Timur, two sons and two grandsons, including Ulugbek were buried. The mausoleum is mostly still there and a portal in front, both heavily restored. Some pics from behind show what it would have been like.
Tomorrow I will do the other side of town. There are no more big sites to see. The other side is the soviet side, all parks and tree lined avenues.

My last day in Samarkand and it has been pretty quiet. I walked around the old Soviet part of town and found the GUM department store. It is a huge Russian store. They have T shirts that I would kill for but none in my size. Exactly what I have been looking for so Im going back to see if I can get the store ***** to check ALL the stock for my size. I also went to Afrosiab which is an archiological site near here. That was a waste of time. I learnt a bit more about the mosque on the hill. Hazrat-Hizr Mosque. It was built in the 8th century, burnt to the ground by Jenghis Khan in the early 1400s, rebuilt in 1854 and restored in the 1990s by a wealthy Bukharan.

I thought I would add a few things I HATE.
These bloody computers. The pop ups are in russian, they are sooo slow.
Hello... all the kids insist on saying Hello, it is the only english they know. The first time it was almost cute, the hundredth time is BS and thats before lunch
Spitting.. These dirty little *******s spit everywhere. you have to watch where you walk cos the paths are so rough and when you look down there is spit everywhere.
YES.. You ask a question and they say yes when they really mean NO. Just say no. *******
Ringtones The dudes up here dont have **** ringtones... oohhh nooo they have the whole **** song. Their phones work like an mp3 with speaker and they walk around with the **** playing at full volume.

Gonna take a share taxi to Shakhrisabz tomorrow