24 August 2024

Khiva, Uzbekistan

Walled city that can only (if feebly) be described as charming.  Small in scale (about 2.5 kilometers to circumnavigate the walls), families living in houses inside the walls--it's an actual functioning village and not just a tourist pageant.  Those urn-shaped things are public tandoors, people!












4 comments:

  1. Kristin Matthews24 August, 2024 18:44

    Public baking is my jam.

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    1. Already sketching plans for a backyard tandoor.

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  2. Explain the tandoors. They seem to compromise the wall, and why are they graduated upward? Any insight?

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    1. Sorry--the tandoors are like big round vases. The ones that look like upside-down brick boats are Islamic graves.

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