tashkent, uzbekistan - capital city

[mrnyc]

tashkent, uzbekistan




a thread for the capital city of uzbekistan (pop 2.3M)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent


did you know? television was first demonstrated in uzbekistan






kyzyl kym desert












tashkent tower out there








our hotel -- an old, but updated soviet era hotel, which was pretty cool









a walk around the neighborhood, but unfortunately it’s realllllly hot, like 110 degrees




























islamic university

































paxtakor markaziy stadioni











independence square driveby













this is caravan restaurant -- nice place
















views

























this site is hast imam ensemble

there is a partial copy of an original koran here, it’s very interesting as the lettering is so large:
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Qur...samarqand.html


















carpets at the ready for upcoming eid services




















barak khan madrassa (b.1532), also on hast-imam square
most of the square has been rebuilt, much of it recently
















heading in to tashkent’s famous chorsu bazaar
































horsemeat section -- yay or… … … …neigh?















independence square -- it was lenin square before 1991

























world war 2 memorial
















turkiston










canals








amir temur square aka tamerlane




















this site is the 1966 earthquake ground zero site memorial -- very much 1960s soviet styled

the tashkent city reconstruction workers apt bldgs, still well in use, are all around it













last is tashkent airport









*** hey hey hey - i hope you enjoyed a look around and spending some time in tashkent ***

[LSyd]

fascinating, thanks for the pics. to me it looks like Warsaw and Baghdad had a baby.

how were you treated as an American?

go ninja, go!

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[IconRPCV]

Thanks for the tour! May I ask what brought you to Tashkent?

[mrnyc]

^ thanks -- i've always wanted to visit the silk road so we took a week and a half tour of uzbekistan in july.

you might also want to check out the threads i put up from this trip up for other uzbek cities like khiva, bukhara and samarkand.

the trip was great and we were treated very well by everyone we encountered. you do not have to, but its best to visit via an arranged tour. there are a variety of tour companies in tashkent -- we used advantour and i would recommend them.

i would like to go back someday to visit, for example, the aral sea area, the fergana valley and the big urgut market outside of samarkand.

[mousquet]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

did you know? television was first demonstrated in uzbekistan

No, I had no idea.

What an underground exotic place to go for now.
How did you even get there? This is most likely the first thread ever related to this place on here.

I want to say, some kind of Islam too is an undeniable wonderful winner.
This for instance.



That talent for geometry and ornamentations... I saw a bunch of exhibitions right here. They could do this in the Middle Ages yet, while we were completely retarded and barbaric here in Europe.

However, they should be more thankful to ancient Greeks, Persians and Indians. They stole quite a lot of these crushing achievements from the people and civilizations they enslaved from their violent conquests...

There are both absolute divinity and an ugly dark side to anything in the world, it seems. Islam is just that way, like the rest of the world to me. Amazingly smart, but also vicious to some extent.

[Murphy de la Sucre]

Do you know what they need firstly the most? Population! A lot of population! Make it 10 years and see.

[mrnyc]

^ true, but uzbekistan mostly needs to fix their monetary system first. its very, very, very, very, very messed up.



to answer the question how did we get there -- we flew on turkish airlines to istanbul and then on to tashkent.

our flight was actually the first american plane to land at ataturk airport again from the usa after the jihadi bombers attacked, which was nerve-racking.



inside the country we traveled by flying back across the uzbekistan from tashkent to urgench (khiva) via uzbekistan airlines.

we then flew from urgench to bukhara.

from bukhara we rode in a van to samarkand.

from samarkand we took the new spanish made talgo afrosiyob bullet train back to tashkent, which was cool.



when we left we flew back to istanbul and had a relaxing layover there for a week and half before returning home.

however...literally as soon as we got home from jfk airport the news started announcing the turkish coup attempt was in process, which was again...very unsettling!

[Kingofthehill]

wow, an odyssey! i'd love to go sometime! the soviet designs with local influences are particularly intriguing.

[IMBY]

Thanks mucho for the tour. I love that Hotel Uzbekistan hotel the best, would love to stay there! Of course, I won't stay in any hotel unless I have a balcony!

[Chef]

Great thread! The Hotel Uzbekistan is a commie block masterpiece.

[Austinlee]

Great tour. Looks like a pretty vibrant city.

[excel]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

[FREKI]

Interesting meeting point between Asia and Europe - thanks for sharing!

[mrnyc]

thx -- here are a few more photos i found.



this is the main metro rail yard -- it was near the chorsu market









and these are from the early morning flight from tashkent to urgench (khiva) --
unfortunately the seat was next to the jet wing exhaust