Samarkand Sight Seeing pt. 2

After visiting the Registan, I bump into a couple of British girls who decide to come along with Dilshad and I to see Al-Buhari (an important Muslim pilgrimage site just outside of Samarkand).

The girls and I walk into Bibi-Hana’s (Amir Timur’s first wife) mausoleum past the ticket counter and score free entry.

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Bibi-Hana’s mausoleum.

The girls sit by the ticket counter and start painting the vista. The guards on duty watch over their shoulders as they work. When we’re finished and about to leave, the girl working at the ticket counter says that we need to pay, we tell her no thanks and that we’ve seen everything we wanted to see. The guards just laugh at this and wish us a good trip.

Al-Buhari mausoleum, created in the Tashkent/Fergana style of lighter blue compared to the Samarkand/Bukhara dark blue.

Mausoleum, restored original work, everything around it is brand new.

Some of the cooler pilgrims at Al-Buhari’s Mausoleum.

After coming back from Al-Buhari, we hit up Shah-i-Zinda, a complex of mausoleums, which you can enter from the back (via the cemetery) without paying a dime :)

Dilshad and I find the staircase and climb on the roof of one of the mausoleums for a better view.