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    A LETTER FROM ASIA: UZBEKISTAN

    Dec 28, 2018 3 minutes
    By Sophie Ibbotson

    Dear fellow travelers, pilgrims, missionaries, and merchants,

    I’m going to take you along on my journey through the heart of the Silk Road, a way many of you will have traveled in centuries past. You don’t need your caravan of camels on this occasion: I’m going by plane and high speed train!

    Uzbekistan has always drawn visitors from the West, and equally beguiled those from the East. The names of Samarkand, Bukhara,

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