Tashkent Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Julia (Russia)   Sleepy eyed we exited the overnight train at 06.00, having had the guard wake us up at 04.30, telling us that we were nearly there and to get our belongings together. This really pissed me off, i mean how long can it take to get ready to disembark and after all, the train even terminated in Tashkent! The train station Hotel didn't have any rooms available until 09.00, so we dumped our bags in the left luggage …

This is the first and last day to spend time in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan! I think I can enjoy here maybe two or three days from guide book, but unfortunatle we have to leave tomorrow. I like the museum about silk and clafts. The pictures on the tea set are interesting. They got a cotton design on it. There was their traditional design called atlas too. I liked the building of museum itself as well. It is colorful, and have a design which reminds me temples in China. …

My first impression of Tashkent was that it was surprisingly modern and huge. As the flight from Osaka descended over the Uzbek capital, one could see a sprawling metropolis that was a stark contrast to the earlier views from the aircraft. We flew over some of the harshest landscapes on the planet on our way from Japan to Uzbekistan, including the Taklamakan desert and the Tianshan. So, it was refreshing to find a metropolis criss-crossed with wide avenues and patched with large gre…

Cardiff to Ulan Bator in a 19 year old car!

Ever stand next to a redwood, walk around it, look all the way up, feel really small? Now pretend it’s covered with blue and white tiles, and it’s the same thing with some of the ruins in Uzbekistan. HUGE! Forget Alexander the Great or Genghis Kahn (no, not Genghis Cohen), Tamerlane’s your guy for pyramid-size monuments to himself. Saw Lt. Kije at the opera, which has to be the silliest plot ever, but at least it was a comedy. Good thing I knew the plot, because it was done in Russian.…

The big day finally came and I would soon be transitioning from wedding guest to solo traveler. While Gulchehra and her aunts went out to get their hair done, Saloh and I took our time getting ready. My clothes had become quite wrinkled, but luckily Saloh happily volunteered to iron them for me. Since I wasn't even sure where the wedding was going to be, I had to follow. Saloh was not rushed and by the time we arrived the procession had already begun. A long white limousine stretched out in f…

Samen met naamgenoot 4 weken in deze regio vertoefd.

Uzbek cuisine mainly consists of plof, fried rice that is smottered in fat, sashlik in all kinds of varieties eg beef, grinded meat and flat slapped chicken. As a starter you can choose between a fat noodle soup, fat vegetable soup or any other soup as long as contains a more than healthy amount of fat. My diet at home is mostly low fat and low calorie I got the runnings.   Thank god I got it in Tashkent as this is a modern Uzbek city with none of the splendor of Samarkand or none of t…

I know this is a shock for anyone who knows me, but I am planning something... a silk road trip. I don't have a time frame yet (next spring I hope) but looking for any feedback from anyone. Also would love to find a few places to stay and friendly faces along the way.

Dan nemen we de bus naar de modern aandoende hoofdstad van Oezbekistan, Tasjkent. De brede boulevards in Sovjetstijl zijn aangelegd na de verwoestende aardbeving van 1966. Enkele mausolea uit de 15e eeuw en de Kukeldasj medressa zijn een kijkje waard. De grote Chorsu bazaar biedt allerlei koopjes. Voor deze stad hadden we een hele middag. Eerst maar weer even naar de oude troep, maar dat was een tegenvaller. Tasjkent is vooral een moderne stad met metro en zo en hele brede boulevards. Er pa…

ANOTHER BUS   We returned to a travel agency to collect our passports from OVIR (internal cops) and it all checked out.  We then went to the long distance bus station and caught a bus that left at 8pm from Almaty to Tashkent.  The bus was a tired but modern-looking double-decker.  We sat up the front on the top deck, with a great view of everything and everyone.    The road was pretty good and bitumen all the way, but got no sleep..   The bus terminat…

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