Pictures from Central Asia
I cannot believe how few pictures I took on this journey. There was so much to see, so many cool photo options, but perhaps I found myself more taken up with the experience and so forgot to use the camera. Also, there were quite a few places where I was not allowed to bring a camera in or use it. Well, I gotta go with what I got... here they are.
| This is a PDF of the Vatican passport. I had to return it to the vatican and so mad bad xerox copies of the pages that were printed and used. I used to love to show it to my very conservative parishoners who were very interested in telling me I was not in line with the church.. pointing out that the pope trusted me enough to issue the passport and make me a ambassadorial attache. They hated it. |
This was the collection of homes and shacks that pretty much surrounded the church in Almaty, Kaz. Looking behind the most visible house begin the shacks and other dwellings where I got lost in the smoke during their meal prep time. It went for quite a ways. |
The meat market in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. They raise both cattle and horses for meat. It turns out, I rather enjoyed horse. |
Andres and the Tashkent pastor at the meat market |
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At the gate of our hotel in Ashkabat, Turkmenistan. Looking toward the mountains separating Turkmenistan from Iran |
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Throughout Turkmenistan (and the other countries) we shared the "hiway" with animal carts, big trucks, and camels. |
Saparmurat Hajii Mosque in Gokdepe, Turkmenistan |
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The inner dome of the Saparmurat Hajii Mosque |
Memorial to WWII Russian soliders killed in Ashqabat, Turkmenistan |
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A little road side shopping on the hiway in Turkmenistan |
Andres balancing our roadside lunch |
City traffic in Bukhara, Uzbekistan |
Exterior wall of the Ark in Bukhara, Uzbekistan |
Carved wood lattice work above one of the interior doors of the Ark |
Photo op atop the walls of the Ark in Bukhara, Uzbekistan |
Registan Mosque & Tilya-Kori Madrasah in Samarkand, Uzbekistan |
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Registan Mosque |
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| At the Registan entrance with Pawel and Nuncio Oleg |
Pawel using hand-cranked gas pump in Uzbekistan |
On the main street of Samarkand |
Snack stand and people waiting to buy gas from the hand-cranked pumps |
Interior dome of the Registan mosque
