The old part of Samarkand is rather beautiful, with all the old colourful mosques, The Registan and mausoleums. The majolica and azure mosaics of their domes and minarets look magnifcant and The Registan is said to be one of the most awesome single sights in Central Asia. We certainly found it to be that and we even managed to climb one of the minarets to get a 360 view of the surrounding city although both Craig and I had thigh cramp for the rest of the day!
We had an interesting night that night with some people on the rally and their local knowledge. We got a private tour and lecture in the mausoleum of Ruler Temur – amazing at night and wonderful to get such a deep description of this great leader’s life – fascinating!!then out to dinner for an amazing local restaurant and delicious samples of different food before heading back to the hotel where one of the guest whom was with us, Boris Grebenshikov and is said to be one of the most famous Russia rock star (and certainly people were coming up to him the whole time asking for autographs and photographs) anyway he then got out a guitar and started playing to the few of us at the hotel. Was wonderful.