evidence: Fergana valley is a very fertile area between the Tien-Shan mountains Chatkal range in the North and the Gissar-Alai mountain ranges in the south in Central Asia, divided between the sovereign post-Soviet states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. This densely populated area with a length of about 300 km and a width of about 140 km is very diverse between the different ethnic groups, mainly consisting of Uzbek, Tajik and Kyrgyz people with some minorities, that have been mixed one with the other. [...] Fergana valley is a place to observe the agriculture-based life of the Central Asian peoples together with the rich culture of handicrafts in the different workshops. Here you can also observe the countless channels providing water to the fields from several rivers. This valley also holds several old fortress cities from the Silk Road and earlier times but not much of them have survived to our time due to the frequent earthquakes and as everywhere in the region, [...] Highlights of Fergana valley are the silk "factories" of Margilan, the ceramics workshops of Rishton, the knives and skullcaps workshops in Chust and the colorful monuments in Kokand not to forget the woodcarvers in Kosonsoy.