Retaining something of the exotic romance of the days of the Silk Road, this fascinating region is still blessed with some dazzling reminders of its glorious heyday. Magnificent cities such as Bukhara and Samarkand still exude a timeless aura of... Read More
Minarets of Samarkand
Mongolian eagle hunter
Afghanistan hardly needs an introduction; just the name is enough to have politicians panicking, journalists packing and travellers salivating with expectation.News, time and again over the centuries, has focused on this most extraordinary arid and mountainous...
As well as the Silk Road monuments in the south and vast steppe lands to the north, a real attraction of Kazakhstan is the mountains along its southern fringes, with their icy peaks, clear lakes, swift rivers,...
Kyrgyzstan, or the Kyrgyz Republic to give it its proper title, is quite simply one of the most beautiful countries on earth.The Mountains of Heaven that stretch across its length and breadth are lush and green,...
Just think Mongolia and images of wild horses galloping across the mountain steppes immediately spring to mind.Eight hundred years after Genghis Khan and his Mongul hordes exploded from the east in an orgy of violent conquest,...
Tajikistan is a rugged, mountainous, landlocked country with lush valleys to the north and south.It saw very few visitors during the 20th century when it was a Soviet Republic, and even less when independence in 1991...
Locked away in its Himalayan fortress, Tibet has long exercised a sirens hold on the imagination of the west. Situated on Qinghai mountain plateau that stretches all the way from India in the south to central China...
The least explored country on the Silk Road, Turkmenistan is the most bizarre of the Central Asian republics.We like to think of it as the last frontier, until recently the very outpost of the old Soviet...
Uzbekistan, in the ancient cradle between the Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya rivers, is arguably the most fascinating of the Central Asian republics. A key link on the Silk Road connecting China with Western Europe, it contains some of...
