The Silk Road was one of the roads most legendary in the history of mankind. The term coined by Ferdinand von Richtofen in 1877, Thomas O. Hollmann was the one who placed the entire region into nine zones: the valley of the Wei, the corridor Hexe, the Gobi, the Makler Takla, the mountains of the Pamir Knot, turiana depression, the Iranian plateau, Mesopotamia and the Syrian desert. (más…)

The Silk Road was a bustling trade route that vertebrate desolate expanses of Central Asia for centuries, until the opening of navigation was reliable down the carriage of goods by land. At the heart of those roads was the legendary city of Samarkand, the core of the most beautiful architectural expressions of what is now Uzbekistan. (más…)

The Silk Road was a bustling trade route that vertebrate desolate expanses of Central Asia for centuries, until the opening of navigation was reliable down the carriage of goods by land. At the heart of those roads was the legendary city of Samarkand, the core of the most beautiful architectural expressions of what is now Uzbekistan.

Central Asia is the area farthest from any ocean. This is a vast region dominated by a vast nature of categories covered by myriad traditions, its mountains higher than 4000 meters of altitude deserts and offering an endless palette of variegated colors. (más…)