I should have put my blog on hold for a while because of I had some commercial job to get done before. In the last post I wrote that our team finally made it to the camp right in the middle of Kyzyl-Kum desert. When we reached the destination it was very dark. We even did not have an idea what the surrounding landscape looked like. What we discovered in the morning was quite impressive!
The camp was surrounded by red hills on one side and flat desert spreading up to the horizon line on the other.
I found a saxaul tree and it was pretty much the only one as far as I could see.
We spent all day long on the road and almost ran out of diesel. We could not get refill because local diesel plant was on reconstruction. To save fuel we got to switch air conditioning off. That sucked!
Camels scared by the roar of our trucks were running away. Quite a show I should say!
Bukhara! Our quite exhausted team managed to get back to civilization only a couple of hours before the sunset.
A craftsman is making traditional rugs sitting on the street and trying to sell his work to not numerous tourists.
Historical part of the town of Bukhara has been a marketplace for ages.
The skyline of the city is still the same as centuries ago!
wow, I’d LOVE to travel there!
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Nice pictures…I especially like the last one
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Stunning pictures. What kind of camera are you using? These shots tell such amazing stories…
Thx Mikalee! Most of the pics are taken with Canon 5D
hey, Tracy Z
well, everything is possible
thank you
CAMELS! LOL. Great pictures!
wow amazing pictures. makes me wish i could use a camera!
so much true!
amazing pictures. i am looking to getting a canon 7d mainly for film shooting but also using it for photography. love the picture with the mother and her 2 children
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Gorgeous pictures…congrats on FP!
Thanks auntbethany
Reminds me of my trip to Xingjiang several years ago (I visited and stayed in the northern region, spending most of my time in Hami – teaching ESL), and not surprising considering the shared ethnic Asiatic/Turkic backgrounds of the Uzbeks, Tajiks and Uyghurs. I have a green dopa very similar to the what the craftsman is wearing in the photo above.
The first thing that popped in my head when I read the article title on Fresh Pressed was Sahih Bukhari, renowned Islamic hadith writer. Sure enough, Bukhara was his hometown. Avicenna also hailed from there.
Nice, clear pictures. I like the silhouette.
Thanks Wadingacross.
This land is so rich and it literally smells like history. I wish I could spend more time there!
Congrats on being freshly pressed. Your pictures really tell a story of old and new.
Thank you, it kind of fun to be freshly pressed
A nice variety of images on this post.
Thank you!
Great photos and I would love to travel there!
Thank you!
The photo of the craftmsman on the steps is stellar. The camel shot is awesome, too. Great movement in that one.
Cheers,
Cheri
Thank you, Cheri!
These are beautiful pictures! How lucky you are.
Thanx gpeace,
Visited many countries but never happened to be in Uzbekistan until I got this assignment 
I was dreaming to come there since 1999
I don’t know if i found lisaray sights yet,but well see
I love the camel picture!
Congrats on being freshly pressed!
Thank you Yusra,yeah, its fun to be f-pressed
amazing!!
Thx!
it was my daydream……
amazing
sometimes dreams come true
I love the caption on the last picture…that is my favorite part of visiting any site with ancient history. I love to consider that I’m walking the same streets that have been walked for hundreds or thousands of years. I like to try to imagine what it would look like without lights or modern scaffolding or cars or cellphones…and so that skyline you posted really captures my interest and imagination!
Faye, that is exactly why I captured it!
Love that last pic of the buildings dark against the blue evening sky. Look forward to seeing more pics! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, rtcrita!
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I especially love your image of the craftsman, a rather brusque facial expression indeed!
Thank you Heather!
I can’t stand the life around a desert, which makes me admire people there even more.
I love the feel of every photo. It’s like a very natural surrounding, made very striking. Nice!
Wonderful indeed ^^
They’re all gorgeous pictures. I don’t know which one is my favorite……the colors are amazing.
You are so lucky to be on that adventure.
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Nice photography! Great shot of Camels!
very cool stuff.
did they make you guys bread on the coals.
wish you had a pic of a chinar tree those look cool in the desert.
tandirny bread…
interesting scenery!
Wonderful, amazing places and pictures! And now I know Buhara is in Uzbekistan. I came across first time something about this city when I read Orhan Pamuk Nobel prize book “My name is Red”.
Thanks for sharing your photos with.. us!
Hi Vladimir,
great images from the desert, I like this style very much.
Best regards from Germany,
Thomas
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Thank you Thomas,
its always nice to hear a good word from another photographer! Nice web-site btw
Excellent pictures, I’m not sure if you know but this place is famous in Islamic history. It’s the hometown of one of the most famous Islamic scholars; Imam Bukhari.
yeah, I know that Muhammad al-Bukhari was born in Bukhara and lived there for many years. I’m glad that you liked the pictures
Great pictures and great people in Uzbekistan. People in Uzbekistan still offer you their best and honest smile.
Thank you and it could not be true more…
This country is still strage to me.
its very special in many senses!
wow those pictures are stunning….beautiful!
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love those shots!
Soulful! Must be great to gain a perspective of other cultures and people.
Love the captions too! There is something about photographs of people that is complex and beautiful. Captures everything about the moment they are experiencing, what they are thinking (in some cases) etc. !
Central Asia is so far away from everywhere that it already seems like another planet! Yes I would love to visit there! Good post!
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Nice post, please do post more such posts!