View Bukhara in a larger map (June 4, 2007) We spent most of the day visiting many of the historic sites in this Silk Road city. At the museum in the city’s main fortress, we found a photo of the…
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Back to Serabulak
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View Larger Map (June 3, 2007) Today we made the journey from Samarkand to Bukhara, with one very important stop along the way. About two hours into our bus ride, we took a detour to see the village of Serabulak.…
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The Road to Samarkand
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View Larger Map (June 2, 2007) We spent all day Wednesday in transit from Ukraine to Uzbekistan. We spent the day Thursday touring Tashkent. An earthquake in 1966 destroyed much of the old city. This meant that many structures of…
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The Last Mennonite in Molotschna
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View Larger Map (May 30, 2007) 11:00am – On Tuesday we visited the Molotschna villages southeast of Zaporozhe. The Mennonite colonies here covered a couple of hundred of square miles with dozens of villages. A majority of the participants had…
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Zipping through Zaporozhye
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View Larger Map (May 28, 2007) 9:00am – This is the second full day of the journey. We are visiting sites in Zap, as well in in the former Mennonite colonies of Chortitza and Rosenthal on the Dnieper River. The…
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Kiev at Dawn
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View Larger Map (May 27, 2007) 7:55am – I got up at about three hours ago to walk around the city gathering video of Kiev at sunrise. It’s unseasonably hot (35°C/95°F). However, the city is clean, the people are relaxed –…
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Retracing the trek
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Every once in a while, it’s good to retrace our steps. In many ways, that’s exactly what Pilgrims on the Silk Road is all about. Over the next few days I will be posting the journal entries from our journey…
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Silk Road pilgrimage slideshow
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John Sharp, the Hesston College historian who led the last two Mennonite tours to Khiva, has a great slideshow online from his presentation at the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan. It has lots of maps and photos about the story.…
