The Reality of Tashkent: Palaces Underground
It is forty degrees on the street and the pavement is doing that thing where it seems to be breathing. You go…
Regional Guide
Uzbekistan
Explore the best of Uzbekistan: sights, culture, routes and travel tips from PenguFly, plus cheap flights to plan an unforgettable trip to Uzbekistan.
Cheap flights to Tashkent: the visa that quietly disappeared, the nonstops nobody mentions, and the train that does the rest
Two things about flying to Uzbekistan changed while most of the internet wasn't looking, and both of them are in your favor.…
The Reality of Bukhara: Two Thousand Years of Bazaar
Samarkand is the conqueror's showcase—Timur's capital, built strictly to awe. Bukhara is something else entirely: a merchant city that simply kept trading…
The Reality of Samarkand: Timur’s Conqueror Capital
Stand in the centre of the Registan at first light, before the crowds arrive. Three vast, heavily tiled madrasahs frame the empty…