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The Sholk Road Adventures: June 2014
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The Sholk Road Adventures. Thursday, June 26, 2014. The highlight of the trip was my trip to the Bukharan hamomi. Bath (banya). I am a huge fan of Russian and Central Asian baths, and I regularly frequent the Arasan Baths in Almaty. But the Bukharan hamomi. Is unique. You start out in one room that is basically a sauna and open up your pores. Then you move from room to room in what is basically a cave and are massaged by a masseuse/chiropractor. Anthony Bourdain visited an Uzbek hamomi. The Old Jewish Qu...