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Uzbekistan

We stumbled across a groom to be and his family delivering items to the Brides family for an arranged marriage. 95% of all marriages are arranged in this part of the world.

This our local guide for Uzbekistan Aziz Rakhmatov who will travel with us the next 9 days while in Uzbekistan. He is explaining the traditions of the food presented by the groom and his family to his new bride to be. The fathers of the bride and the groom get together and decided if they will marry or not. The bride and groom do not even know each other prior to these arrangements many times.

Local construction in the old town. It does not do well as you can see in earthquakes.

Glass truck used for catering weddings and special occasions.

Family members of the groom to be bringing hot home made bread roles to share with the family. They were very nice to share one which broke up and tasted.

Here they are showing us the home made bread roles made by the wife in the photo.

The Mausoleum of Abubakr Kaffal ash-Shashi is one of the most significant cultural and architectural monuments of Tashkent, a part of the historical and architectural complex of Hazrat Imam, located in the old part of the city.

The madrassah, or school, was named in honor of Barak Khan. The construction took place in several stages, that’s why it was completed only by 1532_7681

The workmanship is very typical of all over Uzbekistan.

Local artists display their art inside the former Madrassas.

There is an unique district in Tashkent known as the Old City. It can be rightfully considered as the center of the history of the Uzbek capital, since there are many architectural monuments which have huge spiritual and historical value.

A new mosque being erected next to the old city.

Tashkent City Hall

We then visited the Chorsu Bazar, a huge open market. It draws huge crowds of people from the countryside.

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Great variety of spices

Everyone works at something. There is no welfare.

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