Toki Sarrafon

 Hi 👋👋😊👋 Dears

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Today was the 23rd of December and our last day of practice.

Our last destination was Toki Sarrafon.

Our last guides were Nigina, Shahrizoda,Zuxro and Marjona.

They gave us a lot of interesting and useful facts about Toki Sarrafon.

                             About the place.

Toki Sarrafon is the southernmost of the trade domes in the historic core, located at the southwest corner of the Lyabi-Hauz main square. The main road passes under the dome where in the 16th and 17th centuries, money changers gathered to exchange currency with merchants and travelers from along the silk road. The name of Toki Sarrafon comes from the world sarraf which means “money changer”. Not as trafficked as the trade domes, travelers today passing through the bazaar head this way in search of the Mausoleum Turki Jandi, and a few hotels within the western zone of the UNESCO protected historic center. Our favorite place to stay in Bukhara, the Hotel Hovli Poyon, is just another 300 meters down the road.

The trading domes of Bukhara offer travelers a unique glimpse to a bygone era when people did their daily shopping on the street. As the economy improved in the ancient silk-road city, so did conditions for shoppers and merchants alike, as a generous Abdualla Khan II built comfortable shopping passages to showcase the best products of the most successful economic era for Uzbekistan since Amir Timur. Not all the trading domes survived the centuries that followed, but the four which remain still more or less serve their original purpose.

So our today's day is over and we have learned a lot of interesting things about Toki Sarrafon.

Bye 🤚🙌🙌😎😎👋