One day in Samarkand, Uzbekistan

A day through Samarkand’s best-known sights that lie close together: Gur-e Amir, Registan, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Shah-i-Zinda, Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand and Afrasiyab. 6 stops, about 3.8 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Gur-e AmirMonument · On the map
  2. RegistanSquare · 0.9 km on from Gur-e Amir · On the map
  3. Bibi-Khanym MosqueMosque · 0.7 km on from Registan · On the map
  4. Shah-i-ZindaArchaeological site · 0.7 km on from Bibi-Khanym Mosque · On the map
  5. Afrasiab Museum of SamarkandMuseum · 0.9 km on from Shah-i-Zinda · On the map
  6. AfrasiyabArchaeological site · 0.5 km on from Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand · On the map

6 stops, about 3.8 km between them in straight lines.

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Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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