Toward the north of the featureless Samarkand–Bukhara 'Imperial Road', the Pamir-Alay Mountains produce one last blip on the guide before blurring unceremoniously into desertified irrelevance. The Nuratau Mountains, which beat out at 2169m, have lately turned into the focal point of Uzbekistan's developing ecotourism development. Unobtrusive Nurata town makes a sensible base for bouncing off to the mountains or to one of a few close-by yurt camps. Nurata itself is most popular for its old, circle-designed suzani, which can offer for a large number of dollars at global barters, yet it additionally has a couple of peculiar vacation spots, most quite an old stronghold of Alexander the Great. Behind the post, a way drives 4km to the Zukarnay Petroglyphs, which date to the Bronze Age. Ask the keeper at the exhibition hall how to discover the trail. On the off chance that it's excessively hot, making it impossible to stroll, there are in some cases folks with bikes hanging out close to the historical center who will whisk you out there for a few thousand som. Underneath Alexander's stronghold you'll experience the peculiarity of a few hundred trout possessing a pool and well by a sixteenth century mosque and a ninth century sepulcher. This is the Chashma Spring, framed, it is said, where the Prophet Mohammed's child in-law Hazrat Ali drove his staff into the ground. The "heavenly" fish live off the mineral-loaded waters of the spring and trenches that bolster it.