Traveling through Central Asia can be a bit of a challenge when it comes to transportation. Roads are often in bad shape and long distance busses are not very common. The two most convenient means of travel are trains (especially for long distances where overnight […]
Plunge into the ancient fairy tale cities in the desert, just to wake up from dreamland in the middle of real-socialist architecture of the vivid capital Tashkent: Uzbekistan is the country in Central Asia which revives best the golden times of the silk road empires […]
Arriving in Khiva We take a taxi ride from Bukhara to reach Khiva, as there is no train or bus leaving in this direction. We share with another traveler and together we pay 50 USD. Through wastelands we go, as well as a few cotton […]
Arriving in Bukhara After a rainy train ride through never ending wasteland we arrive in Bukhara. It’s pretty fresh, but at least the rain has stopped. Our hostel surprises us with having a decent espresso maker – a welcome change from the Uzbek standard tea […]
Samarkand – is this a city or a fairy tale come true? For many centuries, Samarkand has sparked the imagination of poets. Amongst them was James Elroy Flecker, the author of the famous poem “Golden Journey to Samarkand”. Its mystique also remains unbroken today, mainly […]
Arriving in Uzbekistan In the plane to Tashkent a proper portion of meat is served, Soviet style. It comes with… more meat: A huge piece of turkey leg in a fat crust and as side dish two heavy sausages. A common proverb in Russia states […]
