Samarkand

Samarkand, beneath domes of lapis and gold.

At the midpoint of the continent, the road reaches its most luminous chapter. Beneath the soaring tiled domes of Registan and Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand remains what it has been for a thousand years — the crossroads where East and West have always met and traded.

Samarkand, beneath domes of lapis and gold.