In this video, I am taking you to Uzbekistan Bukhara Poi Kalyan
complex so many other beautiful places in this historical city let's start
nothing and no one prepared me for the beauty of Bukhara at night
I'm arriving in Bukhara from Samarkand another prize jewel on the silk route
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Welcome to Bukhara one of the most revered and important cities on the silk route the
city is an open air museum that will blow your mind by just walking around in it I
promise you I'm here to show you some of the best things you can see how to enjoy
this amazing architecture I'm here for almost two days I'm gonna make the best of it to see
as much as possible and if you follow me exactly you will get to see the most of
it as well with the best slide I promise you so let's start this amazing journey
I got an amazing welcome to Bukhara I've left my bag in the hotel and we are heading right to our first stop
just around sunset at Ulug'Bek Madrasa there is a little
singing dancing show and you can call and book them because it's quite a lot of tour groups so
it's really busy but it's a good chance to get to know the the singing and the dancing
and also they show you the original clothes as well I'll show you just a little bit
the show was really entertaining I got some food and now it's time
to roam around a little bit before I head to the hotel
nothing and no one prepared me for the beauty of Bukhara at night look at this behind me
I'm actually really tired and I really want to sleep but I just it's almost like I don't want
to shut my eyes because it feels like a dream how beautiful this is let me show you a little
bit more but walking around at night is a must in Bukhara absolutely beautiful it's going to
be a long fun day tomorrow so I'm gonna get some sleep see you in the morning =
Good morning I slept amazing it's time to start that tour of Bukhara now
we are going to start the tour with Chor Minor so Chor Minor means four minarets you can see
right behind me why it's called that but the mysterious thing about this is one this is not
a typical architectural style from here and two no one really knows when or why it was built some
people think it's like a gateway to a madrasa but can't be sure but it's definitely a fascinating
character and a little bit of a walk out I would definitely recommend coming in the morning so you
get good light with some good photos and you can also go on top of this so let's go check it out
notice all four minarets are different from each other they don't have the same design
at each destination I really like a building and I get completely
obsessed by it and this was my obsession for Bukhara we are heading to our next stop
Bukhara used to be full of ponds like the one you see right behind me this is Lyabi Hos means a park so back
in the day they used to use these uh ponds to store water but because these are stagnant
there was a lot of you know diseases and because of that the average age of a Bukharan was around
32 years only so the Soviets took over they drained a lot of these ponds I don't know why
this one was restored or this one just stayed but this is the only one now so you can come around
you know sit have some tea it's a very popular tourist destination especially at night
anyone growing up in a Persian urdu-speaking household have heard of Khwaja Nasiruddin
When I was younger I heard a lot of jokes these little clips you know all the
stories of him and his donkey he acts foolish but to teach you some valuable
life lessons and I'm forever thankful for him for teaching me quite a few when I was younger
and it's so nice to see him in his own hometown of Bukhara
don't miss him when you come here and do Google some of his jokes actually quite fun
I was walking from the Chor Minor towards the old city and then I met this gentleman who just told me
to come see this place which is a House Museum but it's like a hodgepodge of things and the
best thing is you can see the old architecture here which is really nice especially around the
ceilings the pillars the rest of it the stuff is kind of like you know from Soviet there it's like
a mix of things but if you have some more time and if you want to you know go around see the actual
architecture which has not been refurbished or it has not been restored this is a good place to come
don't forget to ask him for the ticket price in advance
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I am at the Tim Abdullah Khan Trading Dome and these domes were sort of the commercial center
sort of the markets so you will see quite a few of them around the city the best thing is you
don't have to actually make an effort just walking around you will come across at least one of them
but these ones are really cool if you want to buy some souvenirs from here a little handy tip you'll
have to haggle a little bit and offer at least you know 30 40 percent lower and you'll get a good price
and next stop two special buildings this style you see is called Mukarnas and it comes
from Iran or Persia and most of the population in Bukhara still speaks Farsi by the way
I am in the Kosh Madrasa or the twin madrasas as they're called so this is Abdul Aziz Madrasa where
I am standing and it's a courtyard of that the one opposite is both have beautiful facades but
if you notice on the Abdulaziz Khan and which I'm standing it has a half complete facade because
when the person who was building it wanted to impress even more than it will look big but he
died halfway through and it was left incomplete quite an interesting story you want to skip the
courtyards you can definitely do that because um you've been inside one you've been inside pretty
much all of them but this one is good if you want to see how the students used to live
Walking around Bukhara you will come across these these are called suzani and they are something
very special for Bukhara they're handmade and a small one like this would take months to make even
if you don't want to buy one I want you to stop appreciate how colorful beautiful these patterns
are and how much of hard work that goes into these
I'm inside the Ulug Beg Madrassa and this is much better restored compared to the other one so yeah definitely do come into this
courtyard and the ticket covers both madrasas by the way
Bukhara is hot but there is a little respite from all of that in the form of the silk route tea house now chaaye khana or tea house is a rich
tradition from silk route because this is where people would sit and share stories so this family
is keeping the tradition alive you can even buy the spices from them which they still trade and
get from a lot of different parts of the silk route so I'm gonna enjoy this tea which I would
recommend getting the spicy which is the best this is my second cup and they come with some
sweets which are really nice by the way this is not a sweet actually sugar and usually you
just put it inside roll it around and make your tea sweet so that's the way to do it
Bukhara gets really hot during the day and at that time it is best to come to the Sitori-i Mokhi Khosa palace
now this used to be the summer palace of the emirs and the way it was chosen was
quite interesting so they put meat around a few different places and where the meat got rotten
last that's where they chose to be the Summer Palace and it's also quite different from the
traditional architecture because he sent the artists to Russia so that they could create a
mix of eastern and western architectures and said you will see some porcelain from Japan from Russia
you know the entire structure a little bit like you know a little bit of western style in here
sadly it was destroyed and then when the Soviets took over they converted into a museum which
it sort of is like now as well but the reason for coming here is not just to escape the heat
but to enjoy the interior of this absolutely beautiful beautiful palace it's a 15 minutes
drive from the city and the driver only charged us like two dollars
if you're wondering why I haven't taken you to the best part in Bukhara I was waiting for the golden light let's go check out the Poi Kalyan complex
I'm sitting in Poi Kalyan Complex and this is the beating heart of Bukhara
this place is really important not just because of the architecture but because
of a lot of the symbolism now on that side of me is the Kalan mosque you can go inside it's
a beautiful Grand Mosque this is the symbol of Bukhara the Kalan Tower the only structure
that survived Genghis Khan and there are multiple stories attached to it including one that I kind
of like that he saw it from a distance riding every day grew so fond of it that he actually
decided not to touch it and this behind me is the Mir Arab Madrasa which is a running madrasa
which means you can't go inside unless you're a student now this place is really important for
Muslims they actually call it Bukhara Sharif or the noble Bukhara because it produced so
many astronomers scientists a lot of the poets and philosophers of the day and more important
than that Sahih Bukhari the second holiest book for Sunni Muslims the author was born in Bukhara
Qari Sharif his name is and that's why it's the city is considered almost sacred
wasn't I right to bring you here in the
golden hour the place glistens with the beautiful golden light
the sun starts to go down behind the mosque and the light filters through
the door and falls on the beautiful facade of Mir Arab Madrassa
once I've had my fill looking around the beautiful Kalamn Mosque it is time to head
to the nearby rooftop where we're gonna wash the sunset on this beautiful place
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another beautiful day sets on Bukhara it is time to get some rest see you in the morning
wake up early and you will be greatly rewarded look behind me not a single soul in the entire square people start coming after 10
I am going to experience a little bit of history
for myself Bukhara has one of the oldest hamams in the entire world and you can actually
visit and use the hamam there's no way I was gonna miss that let's go check it out
The hamam has been refurbished but it's still quite a basic affair I
had a great massage though the guy was really really thorough
and it was quite painful at the time but I felt really relaxed afterwards
all happy and relaxed it is time to hit my last three spots in Bukhara and the first one is going
to be the Ark of Bukhara the Ark of Bukhara is the grand structure in all of this beautiful
city as columns alone are just wow and I really like that they have like these tapered uh walls
for the entire structure now I went inside and honestly apart from the throne room and
it's ceiling I didn't really do enjoy it that much because the other buildings that have way
better interiors so if you are interested in exhibitions like the jewelry which also
quite liked uh coins or the history definitely step inside it's a little museum but other than
that if you're short on time or you want to save some money you can skip this one
behind me is the Bolo Hauz Mosque or the 40 Pillar Mosque as it's also called now
there's actually only 20 of these wooden pillars but you can see the reflection in
this beautiful pond and that's why it's called the 40 Pillar Mosque
another thing that separates this mosque from others is that there's no boundary it's an open-air mosque
Each of these columns is carved separately [Music]
Most buildings in Bukhara come with an explosion of color ceramics tiles this is quite unique though
this is the Mausoleum of Ismail Samani from the Samanid Empire and this one
is unique because of its brickwork the intricate the beautiful brickwork that
creates these beautiful patterns which make it one of my favorite buildings in Bukhara
I'm really not happy about this but it's time to say goodbye to Bukhara two days
I don't think are enough to experience this beautiful city so I would recommend three
at the minimum so you can absorb all this I mean amazingness of this beautiful city
but we're not done with Uzbekistan yet click on the link above and meet me in Khiva where
there's a lot more that awaits us I promise you you will be impressed