A hazara woman sits by the solace by the shrine of Ali Band-i-Amir
A street in Bukharas jewish quarter
A typical carved door in Bukharas jewish quarter, Uzbekistan
An aksakal greybeard stops for the camera in Konye Urgench bazaar Turkmenistan
Bored youths in Kara Kum desert, Turkmenistan
Constructed in 1127 the kalon minaret was both a watchtower and adjunct to the prison system captives were hurled alive from it summit
Fruit tasting in the fan mountains, Tajikistan
Hiking up the Gambak pass between Bumboret and Rumbur Pakistan these hills ahve been badly deforested and cedars will take hundreds of years to regrow
Jewish graveyard, Bukhara
Kalasha woman her susutr head dress is studded with cowrie shells
Lake Haybat in Band-i-Amir a lake complex in central Afghanistan
Mir-i-arab madrasah bukhara one of the few islamic colleges in Uzbekistan still in use
One of the two monumental buddha niches carved from sandstone cliffs in the sixth century ce the buddhas were dynamited by the taliban in 2001
The sci-fi looking arch of neutrality ashgabat, Turkmenistan
The Shah-i-Zinda mosque complex Samarkand Qusam Bin Abbas a saintly early king is believed to live below the ground
The tallest Lenin in the former USSR Khojand, Tajikistan
The village of Saidabad Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Timurid mosque Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Trekking in the Yaghnob valley Tajikistan the village of Dumzoi was never reinhabited after the forced deportation of 1970
Yaghnobi woman with a goat
