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Uzbekistan holidays

April 2024

  • Mishal Husain, wearing a green headscarf and coat, and standing next to her mother, Shama, who is also wearing a coat and headscarf, and sitting on an upholstered bench outside a domed and decorated mausoleum

    ‘A sense of wonder enveloped my mother and me’: Mishal Husain on her eye-opening journey through Uzbekistan in search of an ancestor

    The broadcaster knew she had a link to the central Asian country she first visited on her gap year 30 years ago. But retracing her steps, this time with her mother in tow, she made a big discovery about their family

April 2020

  • Russian Orthodox cathedral in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Easter in Uzbekistan – and in the footsteps of Ella Christie

    The early-20th-century adventurer wrote about everyday life in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, in vivid detail – and in many ways the city seems unchanged

May 2019

  • ‘Everything feels deserted and half dead’ … Savitsky Museum in Nukus, Uzbekistan.

    The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: the museum that hid art banned by Stalin

    This museum in a bleak outpost has one of the world’s greatest collections of avant-garde art, rescued from Stalin’s clutches by an electrician. But now it needs a rescue of its own

January 2019

  • Tiled frontage of the Tilla-Kari Medressa, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Central Asia.

    A backpacker’s guide to Uzbekistan: a one-month itinerary

    Explore Silk Road heritage, deserts landscapes, Tashkent’s metro and the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara in a country encouraging tourists with new, relaxed visa policies

July 2017

  • Aerial shot of a selection of plov dishes.

    The foodie traveller
    Plov: Uzbekistan’s national obsession

    The ingredients of this meaty rice dish may vary but the beloved central Asian dish always comes in massive portions

June 2016

  • View from the Ark Fortress of the historic centre with the Mir-i-Arab Madrasah and the Kalon Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

    Why I love …
    Uzbekistan's magnificent cities: where Soviet style meets Islamic heritage

    From Tashkent to Samarkand and Bukhara, travel writer Caroline Eden believes Uzbekistan offers a dazzling mix of traditional style and a modern outlook

February 2016

  • David Baddiel in Kashgar Sunday livestock market, Xinjiang Region, China.

    Why I love …
    David Baddiel on the Silk Road

    Giant dogs, eagle hunters and vodka were all in a day’s work when comedian David Baddiel was filming his new TV series about the historic trade route

March 2015

  • The Registan in Samarkand. ‘The result of the coming together of craftsmen and builders from across the empire’.

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    Timur's Registan: noblest public square in the world? – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 7

    The influence of this ancient Uzbek grand square stretches far across the world’s cities, from Isfahan in Iran to Agra in India and Russia’s St Petersburg

January 2015

  • Buzkashi

    New East network
    Uzbeks enjoy a game of buzkashi – in pictures

    The popular central Asian sport, thought to be the inspiration for polo, involves fighting opponents on horseback to drag a headless goat carcass towards a goal. Umida Ahmedova captured a winter tournament in the eastern Uzbek city of Parkent last week for RFE/RL

March 2013

February 2013

  • The Transahara festival, near Merzouga in eastern Morocco.

    Corkboard
    Travel news: a festival in Morocco, a Nobu hotel in Vegas and Snow watch …

    Plus lovely Leicestershire, buzkashi in Uzbekistan, the French try to ban UK ski instructors and the weirdest travel gizmo we've seen this year

August 2012

  • Central Asia Rally mountains

    Bangers and cash: driving in the Central Asia Rally

    You buy an old car in Budapest and drive it 5,000 miles across Russia and the Stans, stopping only to pay the odd bribe. Jamie Lafferty joins the first Central Asia Rally

April 2012

  • Navruz celebrations in Uzbekistan

    Letter from
    Letter from Uzbekistan: it's party time

    Samarkand celebrates the birth of spring with singing, dancing and lashings of sumalak

January 2011

  • Khiva Market Scene

    My travels
    My travels: Chris Alexander in Uzbekistan

    The author is hosting a banquet for friends in the ancient Uzbek city of Khiva – but will he manage to track down the last chicken in town?

October 2007

  • Snowboarding's newest frontiers

    Some very unlikely locations are emerging as snowboarding destinations. Matt Barr, author of Snowboarding the World, picks four hotspots.

April 2004

  • On the Silk Road to Tamerlane and Uzbek pop

    James Flint travels to the former Centre of the Universe and discovers a land where mosques and bazaars right out of Arabian Nights sit alongside Soviet-era architecture and where a shopping trip can transport you back in time.

September 2001

  • On the edge of war

    Joanna Nathan finds locals and travellers in Uzbekistan calm despite the threat to their Afghan neighbours.

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