Central Asia, it is the land of our long time ancestors loved, lived and dreamed. A land, where the ancient traveling merchants had carried their valued commodities on camel back along so called the Silk Road. The land had been played a great important role to bridge west and east since ancient time. After the dissolution of Soviet Union, former CIS countries became independent countries and emerged into the living room talk. You may not know well about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan or Turkmenistan. These areas are still not familiar for the ordinal travelers. The climate there is similar to the Mid-Eastern countries. It has a dry weather where melons are extremely sweet. At present (in 1992), influence of Russia is still dominant, since not many years had passed of their independence from Russia. Most of air traffics come from Moscow. Many Russian people are shuttling the two countries. Popular souvenirs they brought back to Moscow are sweet flutes like melon and grapes. These are really sweet and delicious. People are boarding with bucketful fruits in their hands. Original residents of this area seems Turkish tribe. Then Chinese tribe came passing through high and rather danger mountains Tenchian. And many Russian tribes were also mixed with other tribes through long time history. We can see many eastern habits remain in these countries. For example, people drinks tea with sipping sound that is popular in Japan and other eastern countries but never in western countries.

11/Jan/'02 Rinzo (Updated on 7/Sep/'05)