‘Why on earth are you going there?’
This was the question friends asked when I told them I was travelling to Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic sandwiched between Russia, China, and a host of fellow ‘Stans’.
I had many answers, most built on the country’s Silk Road history and the ancient mystique of a place that was Central Asia’s cradle of culture for more than two millennia.
Read all about Metro journalist Alice Murphy’s trip to Uzbekistan, were she travelled on a trip organised by Trotting Soles.
