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For a long time, Central Asia was locked away from the rest of the world, with large swathes of the region closed off to foreigners because of the secrets they held about infrastructure and Soviet technology.
Everything changed in 1991 when each Central Asian nation — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — declared independence from the USSR and for the first time in their histories became sovereign states in their current form.
Since then, tourism has slowly but surely flourished in the region but for a few…
