We spend 2 nights in Uzbekistan and will return to tour the rest of the country
We drove from Kyrgystan to the Uzbekistan border where we had to walk with our luggage on unpaved dirt paths. Fortunately there were locals wanting to earn some money. We gladly paid them to haul our luggage in a cart directly from one bus in Kyrgystan to our new bus in Uzbekistan. The first town we drove thru was Margilan
Driving into Uzbekistan
Bek, our guide in Uzbekistan told us that cotton production is the country’s main economy (driven by Soviet rule before independence in 1991) We passed lots of cotton fields
Tons of these little vans are everywhere
First stop in the village of Rishton was a visit to a silk factory where we saw workers taking the silk from the cocoons, wetting the silk and winding the strands onto bobbins



The artist we watched makes his brush handles from this bush when it has dried

We stopped in Kokand and visited the Kokand Karnate Khan’s palace.
Minaret on the grounds
Columns were made with wood from India carved in Uzbekistan. The setting of these columns provided a natural air conditioning for overflow of Muslims attending the mosque
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