Featured in prestigious lists including the New York Times’ Places to Travel in 2025, and CN Traveller’s Best Places to go in Asia, Metro‘s Alice Murphy was ahead of the curve when she explored the Silk Road country in April 2024.
Tatiana, the first of four guides on our Silk Road trail, takes us to sights such as Khast Imam Square – which houses what is said to be the world’s oldest Quran – and the bustling Chorsu Bazaar, a great place to watch local bakers make bread in traditional ovens.
I travelled Uzbekistan before it was ‘cool’ — go before everyone else does Uzbekistan is having a moment.
This was the question friends asked when I told them I was travelling to Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic sandwiched between Russia, China, and a host of fellow ‘Stans’.
I had many answers, most built on the country’s Silk Road history and the ancient mystique of a place that was Central Asia’s cradle of culture for more than two millennia.
