Dawn in Almaty
Good morning Almaty
Us and the mountains
Taking-off
Climbing
Flying along
Working
Here we are
Climbing further
Local weather map
Over big lake
Approaching Samarkand
Landing
3 pilot & luggage in here
Nice boulevard
Timur's back
Pilots talking
Friends
Tom and friends
Guri Amir mausoleum
Visitors
Old town
Renovating
Renovator
Old style
Soviet style
Modern style
Selling
Household goods
Registan first time
Rich guy (Soms)
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Gur-E-Amir Mausoleum
Built in 1404
For Timur, 2 sons and 2 grandsons
Not the only ones
Timur and his empire
Rich tilework
Just wonderful
Corners
Dome
Here they rest
Timur's
High
Art
Detail
Detail in detail
Restored
Not restored
Impressed
Not falling down
Just big
Small
Reading
Still reading
Last look back
Registan
Local tourists
Local guide
It is the center
Ulugbek Medressa
Sher Dor Medressa
Downstairs learning, up living
Locals
Foreigners
Again great tilework
Arabique
Many of them
Cleaning it up
Here they taught
Here they learn
High
Not a dome, it's flat!
Light and blue
Old days
Survived the old days
Just great
Public
Hidden
Open
The tigers
Looking back again
Gentlemen
Ladies
Chica
Sweet tooth
Local shop keeper
Local fashion
Siob Bazaar
Dried fuits
Dried water melon
Almonds
Blue berries
Pepper lady
All fresh
Colourful
Rice ladies
Uzbek rice
Local people buy here
Looking for
Bread
Bread lady
Bibi Khynym Mosque
One of the biggest mosque
She was Timur's eldest wife
Was renovated
But already falling apart again
Finished before Timur's death
Unrestored
41m high
Earthquake' traces
Getting out
Taking a rest
Checking it out
Waiting for clients
Taking the order (from us)
Getting longer
Our order
Our neighbors
Our pilot
Ulugbek's Observatory
Lived 1420s
On the cross roads
Old book
His calculations
Where he did them
30m astrolab
Shah-I-Zinda
Avenue of mausoleums
Please enter
Tomb of the Living King
Details
13th century
Sophisticated tilework
And woodwork
Remarkably surviving
Somehow
Coming in
Getting out
Pascha' suite at hotel
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