As the center of the Silk Road, Uzbekistan has a long history of diversity. Not surprising given that traders mingled here for hundreds of years bringing goods from Southeast Asia, China, the Persian Empire, Europe and the Middle East through the region. With their goods of course came people, wives, children, servants and slaves. Then [...]
Photo Tuesday: Nubian Tombs
September 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Driving through the Sahara Desert in Sudan was exactly what you imagine it to be like- hot, windy and deserted. Fortunately that means the ancient Nubian and Egyptian ruins are in excellent condition. Although we were alone at every single site we visited (to be fair it is Sudan and some were nearly 20km into [...]
Actually getting to Central Asia
September 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
This is part two in a series on how we actually planed and traveled to Central Asia. If you haven’t read the first post you should probably do so before reading this post. Ultimately we decided against going to Azerbaijan entirely for a variety of issues not least of which was a visa. Upon our [...]
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