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Travel Blogs from Khiva, Uzbekistan
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The Silk Road: Ichon Qala, Frozen in Time...Almost
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
A Historic Harem And A Quirky Minaret.
This is a top pick! ... we ventured out into the gorgeous compact and well preserved central heart of Khiva. It has become our favourite city in Uzbekistan. Khiva is a labyrinth of mosques, palaces, tombs, narrow alley ways and traditional houses, within ancient 10 metre high ...
Khiva
... where 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 ...
Sik Vordim
... 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 ...
Another Open Air Museum
... erst 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 ...
Turkmenistan, country Nr. 119
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 ...
Were on the road to nowhere
... us appeared the Amur Darya river.We crossed by pontoon bridge no less! They're building the new bridge now. We pulled into Khiva and wandered into the old city and stopped at the first b&b . Sure we had hardly settled in when we found ourselves ...
Gates of Hell
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
... 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 ...
Ancient City Of Khiva
... 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 ...
Oct 17, 2010
Khiva
... say 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 ...
A Khiva le a pena.
... -Urgench, cumprida ao longo de aproximadamente uma hora a bordo de um valoroso, e deveras antigo, avião Tupolev da Uzbekistan Airways. O Tupolev, de fabricação soviética, tem sido paulatinamente aposentado pelas companhias que ainda os operam. A ...
Historical Uzbekistan
... 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, ...
On the rails and in the sand
We got on the 22 hour train ride from Tashkent to Khiva in the middle of the Uzbek desert. We met one kid on the train who spoke some English. The conversation was a bit weird though as after finding out we were English he then asked if we ...
Through the heart of central Asia
... , itself 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 ...
A wall city oasis
... tasty pasty like snacks for next to nothing. I did have a bit of luck as in the queue waiting to get my Uzbekistan visa stamped I noticed the start date of it wasn't for another 4 days. I obviously got that one wrong when applying. The guard ...
Uzbeki-belly
... today was another day! We had our walking tour of Khiva this morning and once again, I have a new favorite place in Uzbekistan. Khiva is much smaller than the other places we’ve been, and the entire old city is like a museum. The ...
Sunrise and markets and bus rides
... ; 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 ...
Dans les murs de
... finalement 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 ...
Fortressed city
... 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! :) ...
Welcome to Uzbekistan!
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 ...
finding ali baba
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 ...
Stuck here for 4 days yeah gods
... 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. ...
The Chef of Khiva
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, ...
The plains offering Camels, Steppe and more vodka!
... time we cross the border in day time, so we can see where they lead us ;-) For those interested, the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan procedure was: Leaving a country is always easier, this time passport checks before and after entering customs area (they are all ...
Baby Dancer Very Good
... 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, ...
Khiva - history in a bottle
... 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 ...
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