Uzbekistan is the heart of the Silk Road. From camels to caravanserais, mosques to mausoleums, this is where you’ll find every Silk Road cliché. History comes alive in the UNESCO World Heritage cities and in desert oases, and you often feel like you’re experiencing places from the pag
Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel sets the agenda for tourism in the year ahead: it is the mother of all travel trend lists. And for 2020, Lonely Planet has selected the Central Asian Silk Road — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — as the #1 reg