Country Info
- Tashkent
- Capital
- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
- Currency
- 25,155,064
- Population
- UZ
- Country Code
Uzbekistan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uzbekistan
Wedding Wedding Weddings
This is a top pick! So it was an interesting day as we ran into about twenty or so wedding parties. Everywhere you went as the sound of the horns and drums as a new one entered the square. Elbow to elbow they stood clamoring to get their photos done infront of ...
Yurt Camp
This is a top pick! It was a beautiful cloudless day as we drove through the Uzbek desert. Passing through Nurota for lunch and a brief hike up the ancient fortress of Alexander the Great. Close to the yurt camp we detoured again, this time to Aydar Lake. ...
Oct 25, 2011
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Helloooooo Stan
This is a top pick! ... Hazrati Imam Complex was the first example of central asian madrases that I got to visit. The tile work, as in all of Uzbekistan, was stunning. In all though, I regret not having more time to spend in the capital as there was allot that I missed. ...
Samarkand!
This is a top pick! ... shashlik, and the felling of being completely lost in translation, i had finally arrived at the city that inspired the trip to Uzbekistan. The first night there was filled with more rain, but the warm desert heat made it perfect for walking ...
Ancient City Of Khiva
This is a top pick! ... Bukhara was nothing less than painful. Three hundred fifty kilometers too over ten hours of nonstop driving. Uzbekistan is currently revamping this major highway, and in the meantime the alternative route is comparable to a rally ...
Uzbek Story: It's Like That, Life
This is a top pick! ... few years corruption has become much worse," he lamented. But despite the mafia, corruption, and the militsia, "the people in Uzbekistan are beautiful," he added. "You understand me what I am saying, Lloyd." He told me about himself, his life in ...
And I Wonder, Yes I Wonder, Who'll Stop the Rain?
This is a top pick! The power flickered on and off, the side streets turned to mud, it was windy, it was cold, it was wet...it was Bukhara. In just three days, they received as much rain as they normally do in a years time. Trudging through the mudded side ...
The Silk Road: Unpeeling the Layers of History
This is a top pick! The settlement history of Samarkand is thick, layers thick. Over the years, earthen accretion, erosion, and sieges have covered and destroyed preceeding layers. But each layer tells a story that is a piece of the Silk Road legend called ...
Al-Jazeera on Satellite TV
This is a top pick! For four nights I stayed at the Ali Tour Bed and Breakfast. After the long night drive from Fergana, I was greeted to offers of "beer and vodka," prostitutes, and a late night breakfast, not so odd if you are immersed in Central Asian culture for a ...
Journey to Baku
This is a top pick! ... this financially-challenging leg. P.S. What happened with the banks is that they saw activity from both Germany and Uzbekistan and froze my account. Somehow the server from Karakalpakstan was registering as German. Either way, everything was ...
The Silk Road: Pomegranate
This is a top pick! ... a threat to the secular dictator, Karimov, so are obviously repressed. But one site was the most important for Muslims in Uzbekistan, the Bakha-ud-din Naqshband Mausoleum, where the 14th century founder of the Naqshband Sufi order lies under a humble ...
The Lonesome Smoking Santa
This is a top pick! Despite what you might think after the recent posts, Tashkent offerred more than just visas and militsia and apparatchik. As the largest city in Central Asia, Tashkent was a winter playground of Metro stations, historical monuments, and museums. ...
Visa Hell
This is a top pick! ... militsia than you can shake a stick at (I don't recommend doing this though). So I needed another option... Option Five: Cross Uzbekistan, travel to Kazakhstan to the edge of the Caspian at Aktau, then fly across the Caspian Sea to Baku, where you ...
Broken Plane is good luck i think
This is a top pick! So the day began at 5:30 in the morning, heading to Terminal C of the Tashkent Airport for my flight to Urgench and subsequent drive to Khiva. After checking through security and lining up to get my boarding pass, i find out ...
Just photos
This is a top pick! Nothing much new going on, just wanted to add photos of Anna and her host family. ...
Q and A
This is a top pick! Q and A from various recent emails (Since I have a depressing amount of homework tonight, so real entries, emails and trips to the post office to mail that first batch of letters must wait for another day. FYI, I am told that letters take about 2 weeks ...
Weekend Adventures
This is a top pick! I must apologize for taking a week to post these pictures. Allow me to add Tashkent Traveler's Health Tip #7 to my previous list: Do not climb to the top of a leaning minaret and then get probable food poisoning while still recovering from amoebic ...
Homesick (but healthier) in Tashkent
This is a top pick! ... a few weeks ago. Bahodir: Akbar's best friend and my babysitter; essentially a third son in the family and Uzbekistan's Enrique Iglesias. NEIGHBORS: Sveta (pronounced Svyeta): My retired Russian next door neighbor; lives with her dog, Daisy ...
Rain and frustration in Central Asia
This is a top pick! First of all, IT'S RAINING! YAY! After a few cool days (following my "Autumn Arrives in Tashkent" announcement, it has been pretty warm again overall. But it has been aining for the past few days, and is pretty chilly now. Yay! As for the ...
Central Asia, Land of Broken Hearts
This is a top pick! Central Asia, Land of Broken Hearts... doesn't that sound like a smashingly successful new tourism slogan? Yeah, I didn't think so. ;-) Anna, Karen and I had joked in Samarkand and Bukhara about how the only people who seem to get into this field in ...
Bits and pieces
This is a top pick! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Girl's Guide to Being Instantly Recognizable as a Foreigner in Tashkent (With additional [and likely biased] commentary from acquaintances) 1. Be in a ...
Health Advice in Uzbekistan
This is a top pick! ... see whoever is available, but try to see Dr. Ellen. She rocks. She should be in the Lonely Planet Guide for Uzbekistan... right after the restaurant section ;-) #3: Get good medicine. My antibiotics kick ass. :) #4: Don't feel bad accepting ...
Arrival and Travails in Tashkent
This is a top pick! ... to me, since despite all of my pre-departure Russian lessons, I seemed to have forgotten everything as soon as I arrived in Uzbekistan. Dictionary in one hand, I struggled with the lock with the other, to no avail. Finally, I understood the word for ...
Autumn arrives in Tashkent!
This is a top pick! The heat wave has finally broken! I could comfortably wear the long sleeves and slacks yesterday that comprise most of my wardrobe, and last night was actually chilly! This is a very welcome change from the searing 100-degree-with-blinding-sun weather ...
More Q and A, and some quick updates
This is a top pick! Q: Can I call you? Can you call me? Can you get phonecards? A: Good questions. I don't know, but I'm working on it. Ok, well, hypothetically yes, I do have a phone, but it's not very cooperative. First of all, the connection is bad, so it's really ...
As the Mahalla Turns...
This is a top pick! ... it, but I've forgotten a lot of it. Besides, I like Uzbek better. I: But I don't understand. You can only speak Uzbek in Uzbekistan. You can speak Russian in many countries. M: I know, but don't worry, I'm sure I'll find a use for it. ;-) I ...
Karakalpakstan: A Hidden Gem of a Land
This is a top pick! ... take long to also realize that people here consider themselves a separate country. Earlier I asked a man if we were in Uzbekistan: "No nyet, Karakalpakstan." For thousands of years they have been separate, even if for much of the time, nearby ...
Museum of Applied Arts
This is a top pick! Dilfuza and I went to the Museum of Applied Arts today. At first, I was reluctant to go because I've pretty much had my fill of museums and was really tired, but I was really glad we went. There were lots of beautiful exhibits, and I was able to take ...
The Silk Road: Ichon Qala, Frozen in Time...Almost
This is a top pick! Sharing a car with Yuki, Motoko, and another Japanese traveler, I headed west across the white Kyzylkum desert, a misnomer in the winter because it translates as "red sands." Seeing no red sands for hours, but wide expanses of flat, sparse ...