Khiva, Uzbekistan Travel Blogs

The Silk Road: Ichon Qala, Frozen in Time...Almost
Jan 20, 2008 (16 photos)

... century. Well, at least the buildings are similar, preserved as museums. For one whole day, I walked around Khiva, climbing a minaret, visiting the wrestler's mausoleum, admiring the intricate knotted tilework, and eating shashlyk and bread in the ...

Sik Vordim
Oct 17, 2005 (65 photos)

... m'emeut toujours. Restera ensuite a retraverser tous le pays (oui mais il y a deux trains neufs et rapides qui relient Khiva a Tachkent desormais, grace au nouveau pont sur l'Amou Darya. C'est con d'ailleurs, il eut suffi d'attendre quelques annees et ...

Khiva
Jul 15, 2008

Sancho's home town and very small, just like him.

Khiva
Oct 13, 2009 (5 photos)

... there are many of the same items for sale that I saw in Turkmenistan.  At several points in the past history of Uzbekistan, they were overrun by the Turkmens.  So an overlap is to be expected.  At one time, many Turkmen still lived here but ...

Another Open Air Museum
Jun 1, 2008 (104 photos)

... um 18:00 in Khiva war, sind noch einmal 500km von Bukhara. Nun ja, es hat auch geregnet an meinem Anreisetag. Khiva war ein eigenes kleines Khanat,der Sklavenmarkt hier war beruehmt, und vor allem im 19 Jahrhundert wurde er fleissig mit Russen versorgt ...

Turkmenistan, country Nr. 119
Jun 3, 2008 (22 photos)

Salam, ich bin erfolgreich nach Turkmenistan eingereist... Land Nr. 119... Die Ausreise aus Uzbekistan war recht problemlos, nocheinmal Zollformular ausfuellen (obwohl ich doch eines von der Einreise hatte), keine Gepaeckkontrolle, Immigration ...

Sunrise and markets and bus rides
Oct 14, 2009 (3 photos)

... ;    We started the day quite early as 5 of us got up to see the sunrise over the ancient rebuilt town of Khiva.   There are 4 gates into the old city and we headed towards the north gate to get up onto the city walls.  There ...

Khiva
Sep 27, 2006 (3 photos)

Just climbed down off the highest minaret in town after watching the sun set over Khiva. Bought too many souvenirs so need to post some stuff home. Nice thing aboput Khiva is that you're buying direct from the workshop, from the guys that make the ...

Gates of Hell
Jun 3, 2008 (64 photos)

Salam, von Konye-Urgench aus ging es dann gen Sueden durch die heisseste Wueste Zentralasiens, die Karakorum Wueste nach Darvaza. Dort gibt es einige Gaskrater, einen mit Schlamm, einen mit Wasser und einen in dem man Feuer an das Gas gelegt hat und ...

ancient Khiva
Oct 10, 2006

... at the moment, came well stocked for the roadtrip - beer, bread, cheese, sausages. but mostly beer. It was a fun ride. Khiva was pretty overwhelming to photograph, everywhere is a great frame. the local school kids are preparing for a big show in ...

Stuck here for 4 days yeah gods
Jun 20, 2009 (64 photos)

... was the favourite method of execution. Khiva under Khan rule struggled through until 1920 when it became part of Uzbekistan. Today Khiva is a city of museums. The ancient city has been either conserved, restored or rebuilt inside the ancient mud walls. ...

Baby Dancer Very Good
Aug 18, 2009

... and savage ruler who used to throw people to their deaths from the top of the minaret in Samarkand - and is, strangely, Uzbekistan's national hero). Poor Timur's horse - some local vandals cut off his male bit, leaving only the gonads hanging. Of course, ...

Fortressed city
Jun 2, 2006 (24 photos)

... trade and so not quite so innocently friendly as those in Bukhara, but I did get involved in a good many conversations. Oh, and for any people heading to Uzbekistan, the shopping in Khiva is a bit cheaper than in Bukhara - bargain hard! :)

Khiva
Jul 13, 2006 (14 photos)

... I feel as if we've arrived on the Silk Route. We'd read in the guidebook that of all the cities in Uzbekistan we were to visit, Khiva was the most well-preserved as the Russians had effectively thrown all the locals out of the old town in the 1960s ...

Turkmenistan
Sep 28, 2006

Spent hours filling in forms to cross the border into Turkmenistan. Just over the border we stayed in a Korean families homestay, which turned out to be a mosquito filled, draughty old farmhouse with 12 beds and nothing else at all. They provided a decent ...

Historical Uzbekistan
Aug 25, 2006 (22 photos)

... tour the next day together. Summary As opposed to Tajikistan, where I "experienced the life" there, I was a tourist in Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan has a very well established tourism industry (I even saw a few tour buses!). During the Soviet time, they ...

Welcome to Uzbekistan!
Sep 25, 2009 (28 photos)

7300km from home.... Customs in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are dusty! Not a surprise as we are in the middle of a dessert ;-) The big difference with the former countries is the Moslem belief. Probably you think now: ahhah they had problems! Hahaha … ...

Through the heart of central Asia
Apr 16, 2007

... not one of the world's most affluent nations. Then across the Kazakgstan steppe. We crossed from Turkmenistan back into Uzbekistan and then finally again into Kazakhstan. This part of Kazakhstan is close to the Caspian Sea, but completely flat and ...

finding ali baba
Feb 28, 2008 (8 photos)

After a share taxi ride that took 9 hours instead of 6 I finally got to Khiva (hiva) a silk road city that was once a place where one could buy a slave and a camel in the same bazaar. The great thing about khiva was that it was and still is  ...

Dans les murs de
Jun 11, 2007 (5 photos)

... continuer notre route vers Urgench ou notre chauffeur, probablement retarde par le repas, nous a negocier une nouvelle course vers Khiva.  On demandera a un premier hotel mais le prix de 22 USD pour la chambre est trop eleve. Au suivant, l ...

The Chef of Khiva
Sep 16, 2008 (20 photos)

Today we left Khiva. We commissioned Mohammed again to drive us to Bukhara so we could get on a night train to Tashkent. Not from our origin we were flagged down by a (yet another) policeman and pulled in behind a waiting vehicle. On our right, sitting ...

Khiva - history in a bottle
Jul 25, 2009 (25 photos)

... Lands" programme of the 50's much of Uzbekistan's arid steppes were irrigated, and a cotton monoculture established. Before long Uzbekistan was providing two-thirds of the output of the world's second largest cotton producer. The downside to this was ...

From Tashkent to the Historic City of Khiva
May 21, 2009 (9 photos)

... with a large Japanese tour travelling to Urgench also tried to assist us. It took nearly three hours in our ancient Uzbekistan Airlines Ilyushin dual propeller aircraft to fly the 800km from Tashkent to Urgench. Miraculously there was a person at the ...

Khiva (history 101)
Nov 20, 2005

If we wind the old travel chronometer back I find myself, like many travelers before me, in Khiva, Uzbekistan. When Lieutenant Younghusband, Queen Victoria's emissary to Khiva, was finally granted an audience with the immoderately inflated Emir of ...

Khiva
Aug 21, 2007

... had links with Europe and the East, with Siberia and southern civilizations. It is a cradle of three civilizations formed in Uzbekistan. The Khorezm Khanate was very famous in the fourth century, BC. It was very powerful state. Fairy-tale like city Khiva ...

Ready for Turkmenistan and Iran...
Sep 20, 2009 (7 photos)

... land. Unbelievable when you see it, and you can't imagine that this natural disaster was done by human beings. Entering into Uzbekistan made us being millionaires. The biggest note here is 1000 sum, which is worth just about 45 cents on the black market. ...

Darvaza
Jul 4, 2006

From there we continued on the increasingly pot-holed road to Darvaza and our campsite for the night. We probably couldn't have made it to Ashgabat that day, and camping in the desert near Darvaza gave us the opportunity to see a burning gas crater, ...

Flight to Khiva - Sunset Tour
Sep 17, 1996 (5 photos)

Khiva then across Kyzyl Kum Desert
Sep 18, 1996 (11 photos)

Tachkent
Jul 31, 2003 (1 photos)

J'ai trouvé une guesthouse sympathique avec une cours intérieur où on mange du melon frais accompagné d'un petit verre de Vodka. Après discussion avec un italien, il me dit qui si j'achète un billet d'avion, il faut indiquer qu'on paye en CB car c'est moins ...