May 6 Tashkent to Istanbul

Day 22

Monday, May 6

DEPART TASHKENT   Very early this morning you’ll be driven to the airport for Turkish Airlines flight TK0371 departing at 0305.  GeoEx arrangements conclude here. 

This is one of the places that the Silk Road ended.  The main terminals were through Aleppo in Syria ( whose bazaar is now being destroyed after 2000 years) and other ports in Anatolia.  The goal was to ship the goods across the Mediterrranian to Rome and other European destinations via the sea rather than continue by land through Istanbul ..