Built in the 1970s and envisioned as both a work of art and a city-wide nuclear shelter, Tashkent Metro remains one of the most beautiful and ornate subway systems in the world, with every one of its stations designed around a different theme.

The Savitsky Museum. Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. A fabulous tale of salvation, subterfuge and obsession, resulting in the world’s second largest collection of Soviet avant-garde artworks, deep in the deserts of Karakalpakstan.

To Ayaz Kala, a Silk Road era fortress in the heart of Uzbekistan’s Kyzyl Kum desert; built 1500 years ago to protect passing caravans of traders.

Uzbekistan, at the heart of the old Silk Road, is rightly lauded for its ceramics. In this post we take you to the family workshop of Ustad Oblakulov in Urgut, Uzbekistan. Some of our favourite things in our kitchen in Wales are from this very place.

Why not visit Uzbekistan in winter, when very few other foreign vistors will be there, and you’ll have world class sites to yourself?

A visit to the studio of Uzbek embroiderer extraordinaire Madina Kasimbaeva, who has pioneered the revival of Tashkent’s palyak school of suzani, mixing traditional motifs with her own modern style.