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With high speed trains and ancient cultural sites, this beautiful Central Asian city is finally opening up to tourists.

In Uzbekistan, debate simmers around whether restoration in Samarkand preserves or erases history.

The Silk Road Epic landscapes, ancient fabled cities, and Unesco-listed treasures: you’ll find them at every turn on the great Silk Road. Silk road holidays Once a vital network of trading routes, the road and its cities now offer one of the greatest travel experiences in the world – laden with history, stories and intrigue. Connecting east and west, the ancient Silk Road threads through central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, linking some of the planet’s most beloved landmarks and most iconic metropolises. Holiday highlights include the UNESCO-listed Terracotta Warriors in X�...

A statue of Tamerlane in front of the Hotel Uzbekistan in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent Inarguably, one of the finest (read: exhaustive) books published in Pakistan in the outgoing year is Professor Iftikhar H. Malik’s The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian. It is supposed to be a collection of travelogues, but the volume rises above that. Written in first person singular (sometimes it becomes plural), it gives the historical background of the places the author takes us to and introduces us to real life characters of different hues and shades. Malik’s travels begin wi...