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- Tashkent
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- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
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Bukhara Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bukhara, Uzbekistan
And I Wonder, Yes I Wonder, Who'll Stop the Rain?
This is a top pick! ... look into a dynasty not far removed from the modern day. And the longing for the good old days of an independent Bukhara seemed to linger with the guide as well as the museums and exhibits. Russian influence in the palace is strongly felt and ...
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 ...
Bukhara
This is a top pick! ... , and you can see the difference in how Bukharans interact with foreigners as a recently hot destination and some other parts of Uzbekistan. Everyone speaks a little English, and isn't afraid to use it. I think they're used to mostly obnoxious tourists, ...
White Mulberries and Blue Mosques.
This is a top pick! White mulberries? Yes, the trees are everywhere and in fruit in Uzbekistan. Luscious and juicy, but without the stains on the fingers and clothes, we enjoy eating heaps of them. Another quirky thing about Uzbekistan is the money. The highest value ...
And into Uzbekistan
This is a top pick! ... a country is easy, well let me assure you it isn't. All sorts of paperwork. Then batyr left us and we proceeded to the Uzbekistan side. There was al queue of about 50 lorries waiting, so we passed them all and I asked the soldier what we should do. Left ...
bukhara
... is Mosque Balant).. We loved Tashkent, best of all the stan capitals and wished for more time more time there. Uzbekistan is different, people closely affiliated to Turks - and not at all what expected after reading the british press. Had ...
Bloody central asia!
... (smile and nod), we left the asshole of central asia. Right into the hairy, stinky crack above it. Welcome to Uzbekistan. The border crossing was actually Ok, atleast these guys had procedures and paperwork, unfortunately the people are still a let ...
Jun 09, 2012
Wow!
The lost train of thought
... Not a wink of sleep we'd had! We lay down for a few hours and I got up to do my washing. The beast of Bukhara awoke shortly after and we strolled around this city. Bukhara is central Asia's holiest city or so the Uzbeks will tell you. Right ...
Living History
... travelers in this area who have both interacted with the past and built for the future? Our amazing evening at the 15th century Bukhara Baths, the predecessor to the Turkish Bath model, was that much more incredible in light of the fact that we've now ...
Nurata - Yurt camping
Nurata I was looking forward to this as we were staying in a yurt in the Kyzylkhum desert. On the way we stopped off in town to see Alexander the Greats ancient fortress though there was pretty much nothing to see. Just a big mound, not even ...
Bukhara, mas dá pra pechinchar
... (alô meu povo samarkandense!) simplesmente fechavam o rio e “que se dane” quem estivesse depois. Bukhara, então, desenvolveu o sistema de reservatórios em fontes públicas que garantiam água limpa à população nessas horas de aperto. O ...
Three Hours on the Sharq Train
... many untold stories. An entire region that never makes it into our press--maybe something about Tashkent or the receding Aral Sea, but not the stretch between Samarkand and Bukhara. (Does that make it invisible? Does it matter?) So many questions... ...
Yet another gem
... that feeling when there. It is a city of learning as the amount of Madrassas showed why so many notable intellects in Uzbekistan's history have come from Bukhara. As well as known as a holy city it also has a history of violence. One story is when ...
Getting under the skin of Bukhara
... a French-speaking local who could make sense of my iffy A-Level French. Unlike most of Uzbekistan, the areas around Samarkand and Bukhara are largely Tajik-speaking, making our elementary Uzbek largely useless in these situations. Eventually finding the ...
Central Asia's Holiest City
... uzbekischer Praesident, hat es den Moscheen verboten zum Gebet zu rufen, daher gibt es in Uzbekistan kein Allah-akhbar). Um es kurz machen, Bukhara ist ein Knaller. Und voll auf der Route von Kulturpauschalreisen. Traveller gibt es vergleichweise wenige ...
It’s Hammam Time…. Can’t touch t
... ’re likely doubled and shuffled! Tomorrow morning we make a 7 hour trek across the deadly Kyzyl Kum desert to the small town of Khiva, another Silk Road town and my last stop in Uzbekistan before I make my way on to Turkmenistan. ...
Baking in Bukhara and a menage a trois.
... leave the errors and put them right when i get back to the UK or a reasonable internet connection. We got into Bukhara this afternoon after completing our journey through the Kyzylkum desert. It has been ridiculously hot. Yesterday we drove out into ...
a welcome change
... Chris hadn't wooed the guards with a beautiful rendition of Sanchez, one of the songs written on the Caspian Sea ferry. Uzbekistan! Again a fairly complex procedure to get in, but the big difference is that it is all delivered with a smile ...
De l'or pour les Ouzbeks
Salut a tous, Il fallait bien que ça arrive, au terme de cinq voyages, et bien ça y est, c'est arrivé, c'est officiel, Zeravchan et Uchquduq, les deux dernieres villes ouzbeks où le pied du Kerros n'avait jamais mis la main sont enfin conquises, et ...
Bukhara
Arrived in Bukhara and found another great B&B right across from the Lyab-i Hauz, a big pool surrounded by a courtyard with lots of kebab restaurants and mulberry trees. Its equally nice as Samarkand here, there are big tiled Medressas, a giant Ark ...
Oct 12, 2010
No Man's Land
Shower , Breakfast and were off. Dan is still feeling delicate today and Gozel was giving him great advice over the breakfast table. I didnt know where to look. Insert Toilet humour here. We had another four hour drive ahead of us and Gozel made sure we ...
I came, I saw, I puked
... to our driver's random uzbek music/europop really loud and him making about 5 hours of phone calls. Finally we arrived in Bukhara, a preserved old town set round a small pond which is centuries old. Found a really nice place to stay with an ...
Sous la chaleur
Apres un nouvel trajet en bus surchauffe, on arrive dans la ville sacree de Bukhara. Deja dans le taxi, en s aprrochant dans le centre ville, on decouvre les monuments. On nous a conseille une guesthouse depuis Samarcande et on y est accueilli par Medina ...
Uzbek Jewel
... city, another of the ancient Silk Road cities with plenty of the old character remaining. One thing I have noticed in Uzbekistan is the lack of the dreadful Ex-Soviet concrete architecture, it seems to be a mix of old traditional and modern, ...
"yout" camp or Non-nomadic nomads
... ; It was a very disappointing experience. We found out that there are no more nomads in Uzbekistan or any of the old Soviet republics. When all these countries came under communist sway, they were forced to settle ...
Chill Out Time
... the driver reminded me that during my drunken haze I had scolded him for not drinking and challenged him to a Vodka Drink Off in Bukhara. Apparently twenty shots is the standard for this drink off. The power of vodka. A short five hour drive took us to ...