Picture arriving at a massive mud-brick fortress under the desert sun, walls towering like something out of an Indiana Jones film. This is Zein-o-Din Caravanserai near Yazd in Iran, a 400-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Registan square in Samarkand, an iconic landmark, where historically, people gathered to hear royal proclamations, heralded by ...

SAMARKAND (Reuters) - I had a smile on my face as I strode across the tarmac of Samarkand airport, for I had arrived at last in the city I had toiled for four years to recreate as a novelist. My ...

The 4,600km rail trip through Central Asia takes in ancient cities, markets and mosques in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan The Silk Road conjures up images of distant lands, trails ...