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Samarkand: The Legend Of The Silk Road

Samarkand: The Legend Of The Silk Road

by Richard Collett | May 18, 2017 | FROM THE ROAD, Uzbekistan

‘For Lust Of Knowing What Should Not Be Known, We Take The Golden Road To Samarkand’- James Elroy Flecker. The Silk Road city of Samarkand has long lured travellers and conquerors in search of wealth and the exotic in Central Asia. In 1913 British poet...

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