The light turns everything the colour of dark honey. For maybe twenty minutes the whole city is that colour. Then it goes, and the town shuts down, and the muezzins start, and you have a slightly complicated feeling about time.
Ichan Kala was the first UNESCO site inscribed in Central Asia (1990). It is also the only fully preserved walled Silk Road oasis city on Earth.
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Khiva: history, etymology, and interesting facts
The walled inner city of Ichan Kala, first UNESCO site in Uzbekistan, and the most complete surviving medieval oasis city on the Silk Road.
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