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MY MOTHERLAND - UZBEKISTAN

Millennial Mystery of Attraction of the Sunny Country
There is no need for any tourist familiar with the human history at least a little to wonder: why is tourism in Uzbekistan so attractive and what does distinguish it from other hundreds of tourist destinations?
The answer is apparent. It is attractive with the same as this land, called by the ancient Greeks Transoxiana attracted Alexander the Great almost two and a half millennia ago.
By the same, as this region bewitched the Arabs who called it Mawarannahr – the region of two great Central Asian rivers – the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, powerful cities-oases, inhabited with skillful craftsmen, generous fields and gardens, yielding harvests, full of sun.
Like the waves crossed the fertile lands and millennial cities the Macedonians, Arabs and Mongols, proclaiming and establishing new age-long empires. Their age-long empires were blown with winds of time, fell to pieces and buried in sands, while the peoples of this land – handy, skillful, enterprising, ingenious, open and hospitable – enjoy, as before, the generous sun and every new face.
Certainly, tourism in Uzbekistan is traditionally associated with UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. Their history dates back centuries, their ancient walls of the rampart still remember falanges of Alexander the Great, hordes of Genghiz Khan and battle-orders of Tamerlane soldiers.
Ancient Samarkand Afrasiab will show you the place of an ancient palace, where Alexander the Great killed Clete in a fit of anger. Holy Bukhara so impressed the Mongols with its magnificent Kalyan Minaret, that even the heartless shaker of the Universe Temujn ordered not to destroy it. The amazing Khiva, an open-air town-museum, owing to the remoteness from the Bolshevist minimalism of Communists, has survived for the descendant almost in its primeval beauty.
Not only the cities-objects of the UNESCO World Heritage attract thousands and thousands of visitors. Every Uzbek city gives hundreds of reasons to visit it. Such cities as Tashkent, Kokand, Andijan, Shakhrisabz are an endless modern oriental fairy tale.
Dainty Tashkent wedding pilaf is able to astonish the most exquisite gourmet. The knife-pichak hammered out by hereditary blacksmiths from Shakhrikhan will cut the thinnest spider line.
Millions of stitches of Shakhrisabz hand-made ancient traditional embroidery in “basma” and “iroki” styles will boggle the imagination of the experts. There are also Margilan satin, Fergana wood carving, Surkhandarya tandir-kebab, Andijan ceramic dishes, Rishtan terracotta jugs.
The diversity of Uzbek nature – from pistes in Chimgan and Beledrsay to sultry sands of the Karakum desert, will boggle the imagination of the traveler, who first steeps in this amazing world of Central Asia. The vast spaces in the country are occupied by the Kyzylkum and Karakum deserts. Torpedo-sized sweet-scented, Hyblaean muskmelons ripen on the melon fields of once Golodny (Hungry) steppe. The peculiar beauty of the Ustyurt plateau will remind cosmic pictures of super terrestrial landscapes of remote planets to the traveler.
Uzbek mountains are not so high as the Himalaya or Alpes – the height of the Khazret-Sultan peak is 4,643 m above sea level, but you can take an exciting backpack in the mountains of Tien Shan, Hissar and other mountain systems.
In different parts of the country you can see safely preserved cave drawings-petroglyphs of the late Stone Age – creation of prehistoric man, extant to date through the thickness of time of dozens thousands years.
In the course of the trip to Uzbekistan you will have an opportunity to enjoy the hospitality and friendliness of Uzbekistan people whose kindliness and respect to guests are in blood. “A guest is higher than own father – Mehmon otangdan ulug’”. They say it and they do ehave so. In water gaps, which are farming centers in Uzbekistan, you will get acquainted with rural life of Uzbek peoples. They will willingly tell you about life, culture and history of the region, and surely fib a little, and treat you with green tea, nicely refreshing in summer heat.
You will keep in memory for all your life the taste of natural fruits and vegetables, the most delicious and sweet in the world, Uzbekistan is famous for. So Uzbekistan tourism is very interesting. Bright impressions and interesting rest have been guaranteed here over the last 2343 years from the era of Alexander the Great.