⭐️📸 Visit Chor Minor meaning 4 Minaretts, the Pförtnerhaus of a destroyed Medrese. Every tower is different but equally beautiful. Some people say they stand for the 4 world religions and others say they stand for the 4 daughters of the merchants that built that. It is a UNESCO world heritage. If you pay sth you can climb the roof from the inside.

⭐️📸 Visit Labi Hovuz an artificial pond that was used as water reservoir in the past. In the evening it is especially beautiful. It contains:

• The Medrese Ko-Kaldosh. Inside, the Soviets built a hotel and later a cinema. Nowadays you can watch traditional Dance shows there for free that happen during the day.

• The Medrese Noir Devonbegi that is decorated with mythological birds and a sun.

• The Nasreddin-Statue that shows the joker on a donkey.

Walk through the small Tok-i-Sarrafon-Bazar where you can buy souvenirs like silk scrafs, magnets and tubeteikas. Merchants exchanged their currencies here on their way on the silk road from Türkiye to India in the 16th century.

Visit the Maggi-Attari Mosque meaning „deep mosque“. It is one of the only uildings that was constructed before the Mongol invasion in the 13th century.

Visit the Medrese Abdul-Aziz-Khan and the Medrese Ulugh Begh, a school for Astronomy, Maths, ARab and Religion. Many alumnis became outstanding <Gelehrte or Poets.

Walk through the Tok-i-Zarrafon Bazar, the biggest Kuppel-Bazar in Buchara, where you can buy more souvenirs like jewellery, carpets, knives and ceramics.

⭐️📸 Visit the Poi-Kalyan-Ensemble in the evening. It contains:

• the highest minarett of Uzbeksitan, the Kalon-Minnarett. It was built in the Karachanid Dynasty. Fron there criminals were pushed in the Middle Ages.

• the Kalyan Mosque, meaning Big Mosque, the Friday Mosque.

• The Mir-i-Arab-Medrese, the only school that jept teaching after WW II. There is only 10 active medreses in Uzbekistan tady.

Visit the Zindan, a fort from the 18th century and a former prison for people who didn’t show up for morning prayer and other criminals. The maximum sentence was 15 days because the court operated there twice a month to ecide whether the accused shall live or die. You can see torture methods.

⭐️🔍 Visit the Ark, the former residence of Khans and Emirs. It is said that the citadell was destroyed many times till one reign decided to build it in the form of a heptagon, according to the star alliance of the Big Bear. Evver since the fort was never destroyed. The top of the citadell is huge. Here was the palace of the Emir, Harem, Throne room, Treasury, Mosque, Prisons, Accomodation for the workers and the Emir’s fmaily. At the start of the 20. century, 3000 people lived here. The last coronation too place in 1910. In 1920 it was destoyed by soviet bombs.

Visit the Bolo-Hovuz-Mosque, meaning „Mosque near the pont“, is a newer building from the 18th century. A legend says, that who sees himself, as well as all 20 columns in the pont, will receive happiness, since the number 40 is holy. Especially the ceiling of the Iwan looks spectacular.

Visit the Samanid Mausoleum in the Samonids Park. The Samonids reigned Buchara and Samarkand in the 9th century. The building symbolises many elements of the zoroastric and vorisian belief.

Visit the Sitara-i Mochi-Chosa Palace

Visit the Chor-Bakr Nekropolis

Visit the Mausoleum of Bahauddin Naqshband

The Restaurant Labi Hovuz has a great atmosphere in the evening, next to the pont with swans and music. The Shashlik there is really good.