Two friendly vendors at the main market in Mary. © UncorneredMarket.com
Dried herbs are smoked and employed as a purifying and blessing tool in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These women insisted Audrey breathe in the smoke to help cleanse her lungs. She fell into a coughing fit instead. Dig deeper into Central Asian Cuisine and find out the best and worst of food and markets in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
School boys ham it up on their way home from school in Murghab, Tajikistan. We thought they looked quite snazzy in their suits. Read more about our adventures in the Pamirs.
