Uzbekistan Nurata

the Name and origin of the city of Nurata, well, just fabulous. Local said that forty thousand years ago this place was a meteorite and the resulting crater scored the source.

People considered the fall of the meteorite the divine mercy: "Allah has granted us Nur (ray)!" "Nurata" in translation – "ray of father" or "ray of father".

first I want to show a view on the way to the city. The yard was the month of may was a period of flowering poppies. Rather, the company is already over, but the red piece of scenery we managed to catch. Very nice!

in the Distance can be seen the shade of red fields.

Nurata is a small town located 50 kilometres North of the city of Navoi. The city's population of about 25,000 people. Life in the city is very simple, sometimes it seems that were in the past.

the complex is to which come is called "Chashma" (spring). The ensemble includes a spring, well, Juma mosque, Mazar Nur-OTA.

People very much. Pilgrims, guests of the city, local, coming for water. Yes! Water is healing, consisting of around 15 elements of the periodic table. Cures everything from emotional to physical troubles, at least we said so. By the way, at night you can see how the water source is lit. How true this information I can not say, at night decided not to stay).

it is Estimated that from the Holy spring of the pouring out of 420 litres of water per second. A lot of fish in the irrigation ditch running along the perimeter and in the pool. The fish is called Marina view the Royal trout. Experienced, just buy some pellets to feed the sacred fish. Catch is it cannot, so it became almost tame. It is believed that this fish never dies. And in that moment, when I showed the floating fish corpse, I was told that it was some kind of villain planted on purpose, and anyway, she's on the Marina are not similar.

Mazar Nur-OTA (left photo) - a beautiful structure, where the buried relics of lived here a prophet of Nur-OTA, and a bit South is another burial of a woman, presumably a wife and mother of the Holy.

Juma Mosque is located directly above the sacred source. They say that there is so good acoustics, the words spoken in a whisper at one end can clearly be heard in the other. Not tested)

Another interesting place on site can be considered a deep well whose walls are lined with stones. It is called "Besh Panj" which means "Hand." And named well because on the bottom you can consider something like a palm print.

Nurata is a town remote from the usual tourist route, but if you're close, make sure to stop by.