Travel guide to Samarkand, a famous tourist city in Uzbekistan, suitable for checking in and taking photos📸

#MarchGoodPlaces2025 Samarkand is a famous tourist city in Uzbekistan. Every day, thousands of tourists come here for sightseeing and vacation. This time I will introduce a travel guide to Samarkand. Samarkand, the shining pearl of Central Asia, was an international city of the Sogdians before Christ. As an important city on the Silk Road and the crossroads of the ancient Eurasian world, it was destined to be extraordinary and have a tragic fate. After experiencing the successive rule of multiple ethnic groups, the devastation of Genghis Khan and the miracle of reconstruction of Timur, Samarkand ushered in its heyday as the economic, literary and intellectual center of Central Asia. It was not until the Shaybanid dynasty moved its capital to Bukhara that Samarkand began to decline. Today I will introduce you to the classic attractions in Samarkand in detail. 1. Shah-i-Zinda Features: This is the most dazzling and beautiful mausoleum complex in Samarkand. More than two dozen mausoleums decorated with exquisite tiles are built along an avenue about 500 meters long. It is built around the 7th-century tomb of Kusam ibn Abbas, Muhammad’s cousin, known as Shah-i-Zinda, the “Eternal King”. 2. Hazrat Khizr Mosque Features: The first mosque built in Uzbekistan after the Arabs occupied Samarkand in the 7th century AD, and it is also one of the oldest existing mosques in the world. 3. Bibi-Khanym Mosque Features: Once one of the largest mosques in the Islamic world, it was built by Timur after his conquest of India and named after his Chinese wife.