Last stop in the Ferghana Valley. We stay in Marghilon, from where we take the train to Tashkent, and return to Ferghana.
There are lots of vines on the road, on trellises rather than on vines. In Marghilon I see the second drinking water machine of the trip, where people come to help themselves with large cans.
In Ferghana, we saw the statue of the scholar Akmet al Fergani, who created a device for measuring the flow of the Nile (apparently still in place). In Marghilon, we’ll spend some time in the silk factory. This factory is mainly a museum where the machines (it seems to us) are mainly in operation when the tourists are there to visit. Nevertheless, it’s still very interesting and I learnt a lot about the creation of silk, from cocoons to dyeing...