If this is your third city in Uzbekistan, you may be starting to be a little weary of all the details surrounding the Muslim monuments you are visiting. In Bukhara you can have some distraction. It is a nice city with plenty of hotel and restaurant choices. You could pass hours on Lyabi Hauz, a place built around a pool, with restaurants and coffee shops. It can get a little noisy from all the music in the evening. If you are into horrible stories of unbelievable torture, visit the Zindon and its torture chamber, where Colonel Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly spent years (in the bug pit, with scorpions and lice) for having presented themselves to the mad king Nasrullah without gifts or a letter from the Queen, and having entered the Palace on a horse, showing disrespect to the above megalomaniac (after years of living in horses excrements, below the royal stablse, they had to dig their own tombs and were beheaded). But if you miss on it, don’t worry too much: stories of horror abound in this country, just listen to the ones your guide has to tell you…