2019

Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara

Silk Road grandeur and plov logistics

The Uzbekistan edition paired Silk Road architecture with plov, trains, courtyards, and a more beautiful form of bleakness than the word usually suggests.

Status

Completed

Starts

1 Oct 2019

Ends

4 Oct 2019

Destinations

Destination record

Tashkent Base
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Long leg1 Oct 2019 to 4 Oct 2019
Soviet planning, metro grandeur, and the administrative start of a Silk Road chapter.
Samarkand Field Session
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Long leg1 Oct 2019 to 4 Oct 2019
Blue tiles, monumental squares, and a level of beauty that must be balanced with sufficient logistical faff.
Bukhara Extension
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Long leg1 Oct 2019 to 4 Oct 2019
Courtyards, old city texture, and the sort of place that makes even the Politburo briefly sincere.

Tashkent’s broad avenues give way to Samarkand’s turquoise mirage. The Registan glows at dusk while plov simmers, and the steppe breeze smells of journeys.

Trip media

Shared archive for images and videos from this trip.

No media has been uploaded for this trip yet.

Official highlight

Uzbekistan expanded the canon into Silk Road grandeur while retaining enough trains and plov to remain fully ICOM.

Lore markers

Tashkent Base
Soviet planning, metro grandeur, and the administrative start of a Silk Road chapter.
Samarkand Field Session
Blue tiles, monumental squares, and a level of beauty that must be balanced with sufficient logistical faff.

Field notes

Canonical trip record seeded from the ICOM lore bible. Awaiting delegate media, captions, attendance, and sanctions.