The Aralkum Desert, which stretches over the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, wasn't always a desert - it used to be a sea. The Aral Sea used to sit above the surface of the area, before ...
Uzbekistan is a country you could visit and spend time only eating, or only hiking in the desert, or only exploring medieval architecture, and you’d still need to come back again and again to ...
reports from the Uzbekistan town of Termez. VALERIE KIPNIS, BYLINE: Kamoliddin Kosimov looks out across his cotton fields towards the endless Afghan desert. His 175-acre farm sits near the border ...