Talaikhan Ata

Talaikhan Ata was a circular caravanserai near the old Uzboy channel on the route between Khwarazm and southern Turkmenistan. Its thick limestone walls enclosed rooms and a courtyard with a brick-lined cistern. A channel carried rainwater to the cistern from outside the walls. Restored in the fourteenth century, the building again sheltered travellers crossing the Karakum.