Day -3, April 23, 2023. The breakfast at Marhaba hotel was a grand affair, very different from the generic breakfasts we get at other 5 stars, and so I gorged till I could eat no more. I don’t remember the names of all the dishes but the taste still lingers on my tongue. There were …
Bukhara Bukhara is very different from Tashkent. It has tried hard to preserve its old world charm. The city is light brown in colour, like the back of a camel, they say, though one can see sporadic splashes of colour... emerald-green domes shining in the sun... tall, rectangular gates of the madrasas bejewelled with blue mosaics …
Bullet train to Bukhara Day 2_22nd April, 2023 We left the hotel around 8.30 by bus to Tashkent station excited to be travelling by ‘Afrosiyob’ the 250 kmph bullet train of Uzbekistan. The distance to Bukhara is covered in about 4 hours. https://youtu.be/vcC6v7K90Es Bullet train (Afrosiyob) to Bukhara. The train has 2 VIP class carriages …
Day 1 April 21, 2023, Afternoon Hazrati Imam Complex After lunch we stopped at the Hazrati Imam Complex which is flanked by a pair of 50m high minarets. Constructed with sandalwood columns from India, green marble from Turkey and blue tiles from Iran, the complex consists of Mausoleum of Hazrati Imam, the Barak khan Madrasah, …
Travel Tales of a Bengali Bibi. 