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Silk Road from Tashkent to Kashgar (1): Samarqand

I will show some pictures of my 2007 bicycle trip from Toshkent (Uzbekistan) through the Pamir to Kashgar (China). The start is this market in Chorsu (Toshkent), which shows you the latest fashion in sun hats. What the women sell here are largely Chinese goods.

Toshkent was historically not situated on the Silk Road. But the construction of a railway connection from Moscow to Toshkent during Tsarist times did much to reanimate it and draw the road to Toshkent. Today the road/ railway/ airplane connection Moscow- Toshkent- Bishkek- Kashgar- Ürümqi is a new Silk Road in operation.

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