Looking west over the city walls of Khiva, it's easy to imagine a guardsman watching out for exhausted traders making their way across the dusty Karakum desert towards the ancient city ...

As you slowly walk through the narrow lanes of Itchan Kala, Khiva’s Old City in Uzbekistan, it feels like entering a fairy land—a fairy land of beautiful mud brick and majolica-tiled architecture. Not ...

The Independent’s Simon Calder called Khiva one of the most astonishing places on earth’ — and he’s really not exaggerating. This ancient city may be famed for its astonishing Islamic ...