Traffic in Samarkand is very diverse. It looks like people on the bus packed like sardines are jealous of the man on the donkey cart.
To get some footage while going through the desert our video director and cameraman Andrey installs a tiny HD dust-proof camera on the windshield. Suction cup mount did the job very well.
Lots of local people wear traditional cloth. Even though there are more and more people on the street dressed in western style at homes Uzbek robes are still the first choice.
Looking at vineyards and rich green vegetable plantations it is hard to believe that Kyzyl-Kum desert is so close.
Slowly but surely the color of the landscape changes from green to yellow. It starts to smell sagebrush.
Turtles and lizards of different kinds are the main inhabitants of this land.
That was a nice change! After a few hours in the truck camel back was a lot of fun to ride on.
She is definitely cute!
Finally, we made it! Aidarkul lake just an hour before the sunset.
There are still a lot of old Soviet era trucks used by local population.
Our hosts in yurt camp are cooking traditional Uzbek pilaf in Samarkand style. To make Samarkand pilaf they put the components: lamb, veggies and rice in layers not mixing them up.
Moon rises over our yurt camp.
That night we did not manage to get Internet connection at all. So after I wrote the text for ZoBo web-site my colleague had to call to Moscow by satellite phone and to spend good 40 minutes yelling dictating the text.
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I can’t get enough of your lovely, spontaneous photographs!
Brilliantly captured. Loved the first one.
Thank you Ashwini, glad that you enjoyed it