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Uzbekistan Bradt Travel Guide
The Uzbekistan Bradt Travel guide remains the definitive practical guide to this increasingly liberal destination – central Asia’s most populous country and the heart of the Silk Road. Offering more detail for independent travellers than any other guidebook, it includes first-hand descriptions of everything from UNESCO World Heritage sites and the world’s best collection of Soviet avant-garde art, to riding across deserts by camel and cooking plov.
The quintessential Silk Road destination, Uzbekistan is opening up to tourism, easing visa regulations, encouraging family-owned guesthouses, building new railways (including a tunnel to the Fergana Valley) and introducing high-speed trains.
This new edition includes expanded coverage of hiking, details of new entertainment such as the sound and light show in Samarkand’s Registan, and lots of new practical information, ranging from the increasing availability of ATMs to efforts to develop tourism, visa requirements, availability of SIM cards, haggling for taxis, access to museums and booking accommodation. New maps have also been added and existing maps revised and expanded as appropriate.
Whether you’re interested in culture, trekking, historical sites, archaeology and architecture, seeing endless deserts or the majestic mountainscapes of the Tian Shan range, or simply fascinated by the ‘Golden Road to Samarkand; and the equally famous Silk Road cities of Bukhara and Khiva, Bradt’s Uzbekistan is the ideal companion.
