One of the most unusual visits we had was to see a 14th century observatory built by Ulugh Beg who was very into astronomy and built this around the 1420's. It got covered by earth for many centuries and what one can see now was only discovered in 1908....... the exterior is still very impressive...
....the interior even more so!
... and outside the observatory, life was as in the past.... sellers of bread... not tourist souvenirs!
Next on our list was the
Shah-i-Zinda mausoleum complex
As it was a weekend we saw the most people of anywhere here...... all locals! Few, if any, tourists!
But there were some quiet corners!
By now being over monumented we went to a wine tasting... to the
Khovrenko winery in an old Russian style family home.
Being only two we joined a French tourist group... so explanations were in either Russian or French!
No problem with French... and they were a very happy group!
Unfortunately most of the white wines were very sweet.... think sherry!
And afterwards went back to check out the
Registan!
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