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People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia)   On the five hour bus journey to Samarkand we didn't stop for a break, so we took the opportunity to buy some samosas through the bus window, when we stopped to drop off some passengers. This would prove to be a costly mistake as i ended up catching food poisoning for the umpteenth time in Central Asia. Just when i thought our luck may have turned, it was like taking a kick in the guts – quite literally! &nb...

As I was walking in the streets around the Ichon-Kala in Khiva every schoolkid learnt this sentence: "Hello mister, bon-bon" or if they were bold enough "Hello mister, pen" and if they really thought you were rich they would start with "Hello mister, dollar", ah the universal power of the dollar also reached Uzbekistan. Luckily for all those kids I had bought a kilo of bon-bons on the bazaar this morning so they all got their share of bon-bons and I got my share of photo's, fair deal. ...

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...

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. ...

This is a summary of my trip from Kabul to Mazar, across the border into Uzbekistan to Bukhara, and from there into Turkmenistan. After visiting Merv and Ashgabad, we headed south into Western Afghanistan, to Herat, from where we flew home to Kabul

Cardiff to Ulan Bator in a 19 year old car!

2nd deployment. Also visited Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan

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...

2007 was a great year. Set off from London in July in a Nissan Micra for Mongolia. Got there 35 days later, left the Micra in Mongolia for chairty and then had to try and find my way home. Went via Trans-sib to Moscow, had to get out contry asap due to visa. Failed - got detained. Got back 2 weeks late for work and 55 days after London. Completely eyeopening and rewarding experience, if not quite tiring. Lost my camera in Mongolia so lots of friends photos other than my phone :(

Khiva (Oezbeeks-cyrillisch en Russisch: Хива, Perzisch: خیوه; Chiveh) is een stad met circa 50.000 inwoners in het noordwesten van Oezbekistan. De stad ligt als oasestad in de Karakum, niet ver van de rivier de Amu Darja. Vroeger stond de stad wisselend bekend onder namen als Chorasam, Choresm, Chwarezm, Chwarizm, Chwarazm, Chorezm (analoog aan Chorasmië en Khorasan). Het is dankzij de goed bewaard gebleven historische binnenstad een van de meest toeristische steden van Oezbekistan...

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.

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....

Samen met naamgenoot 4 weken in deze regio vertoefd.

Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo by reliving the past of the Silk Roads from Syria to China, going upstream the mighty Mekong from Vietnam all the way to Tibet, see the roof of the world and more.....