Country Info
- Tashkent
- Capital
- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
- Currency
- 25,155,064
- Population
- UZ
- Country Code
Uzbekistan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uzbekistan
Samarkand
This is a top pick! ... up that I remembered that (a) I was still bedridden only 3 or 4 days before, (b) I have a bad knee, (c) I'm a little claustrophobic, (d) Uzbekistan has a history rich in occurences of people being thrown from the tops of minarets, and (e) our friendly ...
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 ...
Last Days In Uzbekistan.
This is a top pick! ... in Tashkent speak Russian, as she does, and quite often when speaking the Uzbek language, her accent cannot be understood. Uzbekistan was hidden behind the iron curtain and under the iron rule of USSR for so long, that Russian is ...
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, ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
This is a top pick! ... Mavjuda is going to have an invasion of American girls! (This is incidentally the first year there has been a group of girls in Uzbekistan-- usually there's only one at a time, if any... now there's 5!) My only other big news is that I'm coming home ...
Assalom Alaykum! Yakhshi Misiz?
This is a top pick! Wow, so much happens everyday that is probably trivial but seems important to me, that it seems like there's too much to update! I'll do my best, though. The most important thing is definitely that I finally started classes yesterday. My teacher, ...
SNOW!!!
This is a top pick! It snowed last night! Not very much, just a dusting, but it's still cool. It usually doesn't snow here until January... or maybe it just doesn't snow very much until January... I don't remember. Anyway, it's very pretty from a distance... just don't ...
Welcome to my neighborhood
This is a top pick! I'm being lazy and procrastinating about finishing my Samarkand and Bukhara posts (there's so much to say I don't really know where to start) so I'm going to post some random stuff. My neighborhood doesn't look like much at first, but it's actually ...
Hurricane!
This is a top pick! Ok, can I request that my hurricane-affected peeps check in? My TV is on the fritz again, so no more CNN... I'm going to peek at the Post online, but I would love to hear how you're all holding up at your earliest convenience. Thanks! Now, if you ...
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 ...
Adventures along the Silk Road
This is a top pick! ... in every metro station and on every street corner and train and bus stations. The police force probably employes half of Uzbekistan's citizens. In addition, if you are a nostalgic for good old stinky East European cars, Uzbekistan is the place to go - ...
At Last ! - Samarkand - On The Silk Road.
This is a top pick! ... for free. Our visa is definitely at the airport ready for us" etc. etc. All makes sense to us, but not Air Uzbekistan supervisors! As the time got closer and closer to departure we got more frantic. I went to the Air Baltic check ...
Another long day
This is a top pick! Set off from Bukara after a good breakfast. The hotel was very good to us, and gave us 2 big bottles of water to take with us. On top of the 2 free beers last night, they were really making an effort. Not really a lot to say, the roads still varied from ...
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 ...
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 ...
schoen - bloed
... aus dem zerschundenen Gewinde geschossen wurde. - Seitdem fahren wir durch das touristisch wesentlich besser entwickelte Uzbekistan mit einer wunderbar kompetenten Fuehrerin und bewundern die alten Moscheen und Koranschulen der alten ...
Tashkent!!!
... people carrying cash in plastic bags going to the supermarket doing daily errands, and coming back with fairly empty plastic bags. In Uzbekistan, you shouldn't worry about carrying lots of cash as chances are so is everyone else! I ...
Sik Vordim
Salut a Tous, Je suis un peu decu de ne pas recevoir de vos nouvelles, parce que ici, comme qui dirait, v'la pas c'qu'on s'fait ch... Eh oui, les sentiers ouzbeks sont de plus en plus battus, on parle francais a tous les coins de rue, les rosiers de ...
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 ...
Passagem por Shakhrisabz
Ida a Shakhrisabz ou 'Como sentir-se um homem objeto em um detour desnecessário' Entre Bukhara e Samarkanda tínhamos a opção de um caminho direto, mais curto, de três horas de duração, ou a opção de ir por um caminho mais longo, mas que ...
Hayr Uzbekistan...
SO... The Uzbek government is unwilling to grant visas to PC-18s, and therefore, we are all being sent home or directly to another site. I am going home, and then transferring to Georgia or Ukraine in a few months or so... It is very sad to ...
Jun 09, 2012
Iran Catchup
... so much I could never put it all down on paper (or ether or whatever this is). Wow that took longser than I planned! Ok Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan will have to wait until morning (or another day). Despite the loss of camera I have Darek's to empty onto ...
Through the Kyzylkum to Khiva
... to Samarkand, perhaps to Shakhrisabz, the birthplace of Amir Timur, or even to Termiz, which sits overlooking the Afghan border in Uzbekistan's far south. But the allure of Khiva was strong, and its legend as the best-preserved of the ancient Silk Road ...
oozing with the uzis
Well we eventually got through the border from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan but it took for ever. they have so few international vehicles through that they didn't know what to do with Raz's passport ( basically stamp it and sign it) but it took about 5 hours ...
A sair de Samarkand
Zum de besouro um imã A saída de Samarkand vale um post rápido de relato, que cubra os estranhos costumes uzbeques sobre aeroportos e tributação. Escolados pelos imprevistos ocorridos em Riga, fomos bastante cedo para o aeroporto de Samarkanda, onde ...
Tashkent: history, chaos and the birth of a nation
... rose from the tall pillars; a symbol of birth and renewal built in 2011, the twentieth anniversary of an independent Uzbekistan. Nearby, a smaller bronze monument depicting a mother and child was said to represent the care and nurture given to Uzbekistan ...
