Check out Bukhara, one of the great trading cities along the Silk Road (PHOTOS)

Bokhara in Uzbekistan was historically one of the great trading cities along the Silk Road. The city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Sanskrit the Bukhara means "abbey", which was a big commercial center on the Great Silk Road. Bukhara -"The city of museums", contains more than 140 architectural monuments of the Middle Ages. Such ensembles as Poi - Kalan, Kosh Madras, mausoleum of Ismail Samoni, minaret of Kalyan and others were built 2300 years ago, and today they attract the great attention of tourists.