Samarkand City walk: Guri Amir-Aksaray Mausoleum – BiBi-Khanym Mosque-Hazrat Khizr Mosque-Shaisinda Shah-i-Zinda – Afrochabo Historic Site Afrasiyab Settlement-Regestan shoots sunset blues Registan
The first old building I saw in Samarkand was Registan, and my biggest thought was, oh my God, I can’t get through a day looking at that. Tashkent train at 14:00, arrived in Samarkand around 18:30, the day has entered the blues. In a country where the language is not familiar and the language is unknown, fortunately, there are software available now. It is particularly convenient to call a car. You can directly enter the address you want to go to and you can arrive, saving the communication process.
Strangely, the driver at the gate of the station was watching me taking a taxi with yandex. He clearly saw that I had 15,500 somms on it. Why did he still charge me 40,000 somms? Go outside and wait for the driver of the app. The incident was that the Booking address was wrong. When the driver took me to a place that didn’t look like a hotel at all, he didn’t leave me on the roadside, but asked me to pick up my mobile phone to navigate. My Google map was still faulty, and I still couldn’t find it after half a day’s navigation. Finally, he opened the photo of booking’s lodging door and entered the English name Golden Camel Registan with his navigation software. After walking through many alleys, he finally found my hotel, which was diagonally opposite Registan Square. At that time, I gave him 50000, with the mobile phone calculator input 25000, he was very happy, but I was even happier to give 10,000 really nothing, at least did not throw me away let me support a big luggage to walk, several times taxi actually think Uzbekistan people are very good.
There was so little travel information about Central Asia that I had to carry around a Lonely Planet guidebook, an old guidebook, but I didn’t realize that my hotel was right outside the recommended Labi G ‘Or. I had the luxury of ordering one pasta, two skewers, and a glass of beer. It was nice, but the skewers didn’t bite.
After dinner, I found a bar to experience it, which was recommended by Lonely Planet in 2009. I never thought this blue bar was still there! The point is, there’s a hot boy bartending, so, God, when we get there, we’ll just sit at the bar. It was three hours after the time difference with China, and I drank until 12 in the night. Most of my friends had gone to sleep by 3 o ‘clock. I was looking forward to the trip to Samarkand after going to bed early.
Guri Amir
Wake up in the morning, wash, drink coffee, dilly-dallying, ready for a trip. The Guri Emil Mausoleum and the Aksaray Mausoleum were together, and the second one was so unattractive that it could be simply abandoned. The entrance fee for Guri Emir Mausoleum is 30000 som. It is backlit in the morning and there is no proper panoramic photo. It is recommended to go in the afternoon. I have to say, the domes of Samarkand are truly stunning. In the Guri Emir mausoleum in front of us lies Timur, his two sons and two grandchildren. One of the more interesting things about this tomb is that Timur’s gravestone reads, “Whoever opens this tomb will be defeated by a man more terrible than me.” In 1941, the Soviets opened Timur’s tomb, and the next day Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. What a magical prophecy.
The Bibi Hanem Mosque
Continue to take a taxi to Bibi Hanem Mosque, which is beautiful and costs 30,000 soms. A marble Quranic platform, from which locals are said to believe women will have more children. As we walked to the innermost hall, we could see the sense of ruins. The Bibihanem Mosque had collapsed in an earthquake and had been rebuilt and restored in its place. But it is also very beautiful, it is too much like Samarkand, all day long in the blue sea of buildings rippling.
