Chicken/Flower Streets
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| A great guy and the owner of M. Shah's Bookstore. A good place to meet your transportation, if you are in that area, because they all know his shop. He, btw, speaks English like a native and has spent time in the US. A fountain of information, as well. |
Near the roundabout, where you find M. Shah's English/Foreign language book store, crossing the street toward the military barricade, 50 meters ahead, on your right hand you will see the entrance (or exit, depending how you look at it) of Chicken street. No chickens there, if there were ever, but quite a few traders who sell antiques, souvenirs, lapis lazuli, furs, and jewelry. There are also lapidary shops that cut and polish stones and make jewelry. Haggle for everything, asking prices will always be high. Not much too it all, other than that, and after a cross street, it now is called Flower Street, and you can immediately see why. They are one of the sources for wedding decoration. |
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The stuff from the same mine that for 6000 years supplied royalty from every known empire, Lapis Lazuli (link) |
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Small world, Andre and Vladmir, two Russian friends who had been so helpful in Dushanbe. I walked right past them, dressed as they were, and they stopped me as I got ahead of them. They were 'camoflaged' in native Khamis |
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At the corner of Chicken Street, men waiting to get jobs at the city security force installation there. |
Flower Street
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Where idiots got to drive and then spent long minutes yelling and blocking traffic |
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