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Date uploaded: 2008-03-23
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Description: We travel not for the trafficking alone,By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned.For lust of knowing what should not be knownWe take the Golden road to Samarkand.- James Elroy FleckerThe Registan, a ginormously glorious 15th and 16th century cluster of Islamic medressa buildings (schools or universities), made Samarkand once one of the greatest intellectual centres of the world. Science, mathematics, economics, foreign language and culture, astronomy, and religion amongst other disiplines were taught here. Today, I discovered a small UNESCO supported carpet company nestled amongst the history and grand architecture.This afternoon, we head for Penjikent in Tajikistan and then onto Dushanbe and the 732km Pamir Hwy. For me, this highway wil be one of the trip highlights, apparently last year only 150 tourists travelled this route across the "roof of the world". With visas and special military permits in hand, the road ahead is set to be cold but full of warm and generous mountain folk.Traveller's teacupwww.teacup.net.au
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Samarkand Carpet Weavers Video
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