Culture & Adventure
A visit to Central Asia - whether on a package tour or
with a backpack - is always a combination of a visit to
fascinating ancient cultures and meetings with the people
from the hospitable countries now covering Turkestan.
Located at the heart of the Silk Road, Central Asia has
some of the world's most important cultural heritage and
monuments of architecture. The stars of these certainly
are the colourful cities of Bukhara
and Samarkand, that have
been known to the west since Alexander the Great.
Lesser known, but in their historical significance equally
important sites, include Islamic and pre-Islamic sites
such as Kyrgyzstan's Burana Tower, Turkmenistan's Bronze
Age sites of Anau
and Gonur Depe,
Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan's Buddhist heritage or Kazakhstan's
Turkestan - the largest
dome in Central Asia. Although perhaps not as visually
spectacular as the monuments in Samarkand
or Persia some of the lesser known sites are beyond comparison
not only for their and historical context but also for
their original state - almost unspoilt by later reconstruction
and restoration.
Please continue to our Turkmenistan
Region pages
and the Kazakhstan
section to continue reading while some of our pages
are still under construction.
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