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Postcards from Uzbekistan

An editorial photo journal from @feel.uzbekistan — atmospheric dispatches from the country we live in, one place at a time. Written by our team, photographed on the ground.

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    Featured reel — @placesandfaces_800 on Uzbekistan.

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    A reel from the @feel.uzbekistan archive.

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    Featured reel — @katty.the.traveller in Uzbekistan.

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    A recent dispatch from the @feel.uzbekistan journal.

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    Featured — @matterarts_ in Uzbekistan.

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    Featured — @rash_alsuwaidi in Uzbekistan.

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    Featured — @blessedshakh in Uzbekistan.

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    Featured — @marcos_travelsoul in Uzbekistan.

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  9. Tilya-Kori Madrasa minaret and twin turquoise domes at the Registan, Samarkand3Registan Square, Samarkand

    Three centuries of Timurid architecture converge on a single square. Lord Curzon called it the noblest public square in the world in 1889. It still holds.

    • #samarkand
    • #registan
    • #silkroad
  10. Alley between two ornately tiled mausoleum portals at Shah-i-Zinda, SamarkandShah-i-Zinda, Samarkand

    Thirty-six steps up, thirty-six steps down.

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    • #shahizinda
    • #timurid
  11. Vaulted brick alley in Samarkand with painted plates, ikat scarves and hanging ceramicsKonigil village, Samarkand region

    The last workshop in the world still making mulberry-fibre paper by the 8th-century Samarkand method.

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    • #konigil
  12. The Kalyan Minaret and Mir-i-Arab Madrasa ensemble in BukharaPoi Kalyan, Bukhara

    Genghis Khan destroyed almost every building in Bukhara in March 1220.

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    • #kalyan
    • #silkroad
  13. View across the rooftops of Khiva's walled inner city Ichan Kala from the rampartsIchan Kala, Khiva

    There is exactly one time to see Khiva: about six in the evening in late September, from the western walls of Ichan Kala.

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    • #ichankala
    • #unesco
  14. The blue-domed Chorsu Bazaar in TashkentChorsu Bazaar, Tashkent

    Under the largest single dome in Central Asia — three hundred square metres of turquoise tile — nine centuries of markets, all of them stacked on top of the last one.

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    • #chorsu
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  15. Blue and turquoise Rishton ceramic bowls and plates on displayRishton, Fergana Valley

    The turquoise glaze on Rishton pottery is made from ash of the ishkor plant, which only grows in a specific band of Fergana Valley soil.

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  16. Rusting Soviet fishing vessels on the dry seabed at MuynakMuynak, Karakalpakstan

    Muynak was a Soviet fishing port until the 1980s.

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    • #aralsea
    • #karakalpakstan
  17. Aydarkul lake in the Kyzylkum desert of UzbekistanAydarkul, Kyzylkum Desert

    Aydarkul should not exist.

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    • #kyzylkum
    • #desert
  18. The Ak-Saray palace ruins at Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan — Timur's birthplaceShakhrisabz, Kashkadarya region

    Two towers, thirty-eight metres tall, all that survives of a palace Timur designed to be the biggest in the known world.

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    • #timur
    • #unesco
  19. The Charvak reservoir with the Chatkal mountains behind, UzbekistanChatkal range, Tashkent region

    An hour and a half from Tashkent, the Chatkal range rises out of the plains and the Charvak reservoir sits at its base like a spilled turquoise saucer.

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  20. Detail of muqarnas capital and calligraphy band at the top of a Samarkand minaretRegistan, Samarkand

    Muqarnas — the honeycomb geometry that turns a square wall into a circular dome. Fifteenth-century Timurid mathematics in blue and gold.

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    • #muqarnas
    • #architecture