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| Islam Khoja Minaret
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| View to Kalta-minor Minaret
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| Kalta-minor Minaret
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| Kuhna Ark Mosque
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| Tiled Mihrab (?)
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Base for the khan's ceremonial yurt
See, see, we are still really nomads!
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| Pavilion
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| Visiting Scotsman
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| Royal reception room (?)
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| Re-imagined Khanate Mint
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| View from Ark watch-tower
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| View over (restored) walls
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| View from Ark to Islom Hoja Minaret
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| Toshhovli Palace ~1840
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| Toshhovli Palace: Khan's senior officers. 19th c
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| Toshhovli Palace
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| Toshhovli Palace: Throne Room
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| Impressive Throne Room ceiling
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View over Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum
From Islom Hoja Minaret
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| Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum
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| Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum
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| Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum
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| Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum
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| Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum: Tomb
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| Pahlavan Mahmoud Mausoleum + Islam Khoja Minaret
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| Islam Khoja Minaret
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| Kalta Minor Mosque, from Islom Hoja Minaret
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| Kalta-minor Minaret
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| Juma Mosque Minaret
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Juma Mosque interior
A forest of wooden pillars
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| Juma Mosque: Mihrab
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| East Gate
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| East Gate, looking out
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| East Gate: Old Slave Market area
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| North Gate
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| West Gate
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| Walls, near West Gate
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| Islam Hoja Medressa
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| Islam Hoja Medressa: Courtyard
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| Sayid Allauddin Mausoleum, 14th c
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| Kutlug Murad Inaq Madrassah
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| Kutlug Murad Inaq Madrassah
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| Olden Times: A stoning
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| View from train, ~20 miles East of Urgench
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| Karakalpakstan History Museum
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| Across the Oxus (Amu Darya)
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| Mizdakkhan Necropolis
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| Gyaur Kala mudbrick fortress (4th-14thc)
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Moynaw was a prosperous fishing port on the Aral Sea. Then the sea walekd away.
Outside the Aral Sea Museum there is a famoiur ship graveyard.
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| Scotsman + Beached Ship
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| Abandoned Fishing Fleet
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| Aral Sea Memorial
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| Aral Sea 1960 & 1973
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| Aral Sea 2006 & 2016
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Becausde of recent hevay rain, we were required to travel in a convoy.
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| Rain, 21 miles NW of Moynaq, on old sea bed
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| Our convoy, waiting for stragglers
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| Some of many oil & gas wells, on old sea bed
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| Approaching buffs up to Ustyurt Plateau
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| Snooty camel, 35m W of Moynaq
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| Ustyurt Plateau
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| Ustyurt Plateau canyon
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| Ustyurt Plateau canyon
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| Loyal, but muddy, Toyota Landcruiser
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| View down to Aral Sea
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| Aral Sea, just after dawn
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| Graham at the Aral Sea
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| Very muddy Yurt Camp
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| Very muddy Yurt Camp
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| Statue of Timur
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| State Museum of the Temerids
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| Assumption Cathedral
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| Assumption Cathedral
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| TV Tower (?)
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| The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan
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| Very Grand Lobby/Atrium
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| WWII poster
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| Soviet-era poster
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| 15th c metal-strip armor
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| Timur
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| Timur receiving foreign ambassadors
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| Timur was the Cat's Pajamas
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| Yonus Rajabiy Metro Station, with giant torches
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| Kosmomoavtlar Metro Station
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| Icarus
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| Sergei Korolev
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| Gagarin
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| Soyuz-Apollo
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| Many-domed Alisver Navoiy Metro Station
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| Traditional scenes at Alisver Navoiy Metro
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| Gafur Gulom Metro Station
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| Mustakillik Metro Station
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| Museum of the Victims of Repressions
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| Museum of the Victims of Repressions
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| One of the dreaded black cars used by the 1930s security police
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| An Interrogation
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| An Execution
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| "Tsarist Conquest of Central Asia and Struggle of the Local People Against the Invaders"
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| Moderl of Perm-36
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| Fortunately everything is wonderful nowadays.
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| Memorial "Memory of the Witnesses"
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| Khazrati Imam Mosque
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| Khazrati Imam Mosque minaret
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Giant new mosque, under construction
Beside the Khazrati Imam complex
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| Barakhan Madressa
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Barakhan Madressa courtyard
Now converted to tourist shops
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| Barakhan Madressa detail
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| Abu Bakr Kaffal Shashi shrine
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| Ko’kaldash Madrassi
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| Ko’kaldash Madrassi courtyard
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| Hoja Ahror Valiy Mosque
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