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Mosque complex, and rehearsals
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We seemed to have arrived in Samarqand at the time of rehearsals for a great public, international celebration of Ramadan which was by then only a week or so off.
Caught me!
Teasing with the police
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Half-hearted procession
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Rehearsals
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We can still see you, lads
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No, you're definitely going to need better riot sh…
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Samarqand mosque complex
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Dome & tower
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Vuun scary vaiter
I don't know what this was when it was alive
The English abroad
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Cultural tour
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FU...
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This was going to be a rude word. I've spared you the rest, partly because I was *in* it.
Getting arty
Navigation check
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Getting into Kyrgystan was ridiculously easy — the most civilised border crossing of the trip. (Not counting the overly lengthy exit component from Uzbekistan.)
Wrong road
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But well worth the detour. Kyrgystan is so very beautiful, as well as being once again very different in character from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Still enormously friendly people though. I deeply regret that we ("we"!) were in such a hurry that we had to turn down several invitations to stay in people's homes.
Autumn fishing
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I think I did warn you up there that they were about to go a bit arty, didn't I? ;)
This is using a borrowed effects filter called "March hare". Looks like a detail from an old landscape painting, I think.
