Shopping At The Siyob Bazaar, Part One

Every city in Uzbekistan has one central shopping market and the place to go in Samarkand is the big Siyob Bazaar. It's all there, from meat, vegetables, bread, clothing, and candy, to hardware and tobacco. If a house might use it, they sell it.

Overview. The bazaar is a mix of outdoor, covered stalls and indoor shops.

Babushkas, on the march. Better come with your best price. The iconic broom design in Uzbekistan.

Delivering watermelons.

Bread is big. Round loaves are called non. Sometimes decorated for special occasions, mostly hot and fresh and bought in bulk for today's meals. Nice recycled bag.

Corn is ready.

Seeing The Sadriddin Ayni House Museum

Sadriddin Ayni was born in 1878, wrote poetry, fiction, history, and a dictionary. So says Wikipedia. Mad props on the dictionary inclusion. Ayni is famous for being Tajik and is buried in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. No matter, his pad in Samarkand is where he lived and worked for 30+ years and it's now a nice house museum.

Fancy. One could hold luxurious literary throw downs in a room like this one.

Nice oasis back courtyard. Writing desk. Gotta preserve everything under a clear case. No dust!

G&T? No, T&T: tea and a typewriter.

Getting personal (effects). Ayni's wardrobe and shaving kit and toothbrush.

The end and the death mask to prove it.