Conjuring images of nomadic horsemen, spectacular monuments, breathtaking scenery and crippling poverty, Central Asia remains an enigma.
With the collapse of the USSR, the nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tur.
Home to the descendants of Jenghiz Khan\'s Great Horde, in the nineteenth century the once powerful Silk Road states beCame a pawn in the \'Great Game\' of expansion and espionage between Britain and Russia, disappearing behind what would become known as the \'Iron Curtain\'.
Conjuring images of nomadic horsemen, spectacular monuments, breathtaking scenery and crippling poverty, Central Asia remains an enigma