This small city ( less than 30.000 people) in the south of Uzbekistan is not on the list of main tourist attractions. Emilie wanted to get a out from the main cities. In just a few days we had a sequence of surprises: good and the bad one (I got the toxinfection of the trip which made me stay in the room for 2 days) as the alternation of the rainy clouds on the sky

The landscape is pretty deserted, but full of life for this part of the year

In this almost middle of noware, the state built music schools in almost all the villages. The pseudo classical arhitecture and how it is used is debateble, but the purpose to try to give an education even to isolated people is more than praizable. I would say that as average level of common culture is amazing. People selling vegetables in markets know alot where Romania is situated, a little about its history. They know cities in France. From football … how would it be that before any football, instead of so much adds, or statistics about the players, to learn in 5 minutes about the geography and history of the cities of the teams ?

And again, the people are so friendly. Passing by a school, two professors invited us to visit them. Notice the chess board.

From the road to get here, I got obsessed by a strange mountain peak, which appeared like a mirage

After visiting the school, we started climbing and after a couple of hours of ascending in full heat, this peak revealed itself

The sublime was rendered by the quick advance of clouds

We did like in the American movies when the heros are waiting in the last moment to jump with the wave of explosions: we waited until the first drops of rains, and of course, because it had been a sunny day, nobody had any rain protection. After 30 minutes run into a wild rain, at the first house of the village I see someone and of course, we get invited. What can be a better way than to get dry

having a dry drink with a Muslim ? Hey, how that you can drink ? Hey, we have another type of Islam