Country Info
- Tashkent
- Capital
- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
- Currency
- 25,155,064
- Population
- UZ
- Country Code
Uzbekistan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uzbekistan
Ex mar d'Aral
Marxem cap a Moynaq, el poble que fa quaranta anys era a la costa del mar d Aral i ara es en terra desertica, sense haver-se mogut de lloc. Un dels damnificats dels camps de coto sovietics. Moynaq es una ciutat plana, on hi ha mes tanques que ...
Spring time in Uzbekistan.
Spring in Uzbekistan is wonderful. Especially when people preparing "SUMALYAK" (national spring meal, which used to be cooked with a gustes, and long long ...
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
... Embassy and after 3 security checkpoints we listened to a lady speak about her experience with orphanages and adopting in Uzbekistan. Adoption is officially open but unofficially closed, whatever that means. Basically if you want to adopt you have to ...
Turkey, Iran and Turkmenistan
... don't work there. Since Istanbul we have gone through Turkey and Iran, up into Turkmenistan and I am writing to you from Uzbekistan. Turkey was amazing we travelled with two other teams, No Mean Fiat and Team Soyombo. Spent a couple of days in ...
The heart of the ancient civilisations
Having seen the cosmopolitan city of Tashkent, Chad & I decided to drive to the Smarkand & Bhukhara. Our travel companions, Hans & Harry had heard bad reports about the roads & availibilty of diesel in Usbekistan and therefore ...
Margolin, Kokand
... nbsp; $600 All other expenses - 13days Japan - temples and gardens are nice: enough 2 weeks Uzbekistan: culture-Architecture, Majolica, Doors, Warm people, adventures on trips - I love this country!!!!!!!!! ...
Info
... can go by the ancient road as well! You will have excellent opportunity to cross five Asian republics: China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Iran. This tour is unique at the beginning till the end: from grandiose Chinese Wall, ...
Khiva
Nun sind wir wirklich auf der Seidenstrasse. Was für eine Stadt (obwohl schon ziemlich touristisch); die historische Altstadt ist wie ein lebendiges Museum. Madrassen, Moscheen und Minarette an jeder Ecke. Trotz mehr als 40 Grad schaue ich mir den ...
Khiva-Bukhara
Wir verlassen Khiva gegen 8 Uhr und fahren an riesigen Baumwollfeldern vorbei, bevor wir den Rand der Kyzylkum Desert erreichen, an dem wir entlang fahren. Die Temperaturen sind noch höher als gestern und das Wasser im Truck erreicht ...
Samarkand
First of all, a guy we met on the train that offered to help us get a good price for a taxi form the station ended up paying whatever that price was himself before we got in the car, which was lovely. We stayed in a small B&B (Dilshoda) with a ...
Timur 2/3
Entrada aborrida i prescindible pels no interessats en la ciutat uzbeca. A Bukhara, per primer cop en molt de temps, crema mes d una bombeta a l habitacio. Amb el petit hostalet de Khiva, en una casa pati tradicional i ambient de guest s house ...
Uzbek Family Welcome
... and wipe from your minds nomads on the steppes in a yurt. Teens and texting and phone video are as much a part of Uzbekistan as a California mall. (Except that at The Grove, California teens aren't taking cell phone video of slaughtering a lamb, which ...
Lazing about Samarkand
... of Islamic art is calligraphy and in a medressa we round an artist who uses the various scripts used throughout the history of Uzbekistan. At another vendor stall we found another unibrow lady, this one wanted to give us a henna unibrow – ...
Evening Orthodox Mass & Roman Catholic Church
Our next stop finally winding our way slowly to the airport was to the Polish Roman Catholic Church. I'm told there is also a German Church which they call a Temple. I'd already visited the Russian Orthodox Church this morning. The ...
Silk Road Cities
Well I got the airport at 5am this morning and manged to squeeze my way onto an almost full flight to Khiva. The plan now is to spend a few days sightseeing and hopefully visit the desert forts, then taken in the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand on my way ...
Samarkand Evening & Orthodox Church
Officially the sightseeing portion of the day was done and I now had the rest of the evening until tomorrow noon as freetime in Samarkand before my tour resumed. The first thing on the agenda was a long anticipated trip to the music CD ...
Art for arts sake!
... few months and I could come back again and again to see a new museum of fresh art every time! Lucky people of Uzbekistan! Whereas I knew this had been the chance of a lifetime for me to sample a little piece of early 20th century Russian art, ...
Tashkent - the beginning
Lots pf thing I don't remember about that trip,as I've taken it more than a year ago now. This includes the flight I took, I hope it was S7 airlines, although Uz airlines could be much cheaper. Straight after I've arrived, I didn't know how to get out of ...
Judo
Part of weekly life is Judo training - and I have a feeling now that there is a little bit of an Uzbek Kurash twist to this instructor. He is Uzbek, after all. These classes are ROUGH two hours, and I admit to being completely exhausted ...
Tashkent Orthodox Cathedral
I was very eager to visit the Russian Orthodox Cathedral I had driven by on my first day. Slightly more familiar with Tashkent now I knew it was near the main train station. I planned to take the metro there to visit as I had freetime this ...
Steaming East
... in remission for some days now and we've travelled 1000's of Km's thru Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan. Now we are almost thru Uzbekistan. We have travelled so far so fast it's hard to focus on anything else and unfortunately most of us have been sick ...
Koney Urgench-Khiva
Es sind noch 4 Stunden bis wir am Abend in Khiva eintreffen. Da unser Truck nicht durch die Tore der Altstadt passt, müssen wir ihn außerhalb abstellen und bringen unser Gepäck zum Hotel, das in der historischen Altstadt liegt. Legen uns auf die ...
Samani Park, Bazaar, Prophet Job's Tomb
... the day After first welcoming me to his country, he was very surprised how somebody from Canada knew about Uzbekistan? The only info guides and drivers are given about me is my name and nationality. I explained that I was actually ...
Rukhobod Mausoleum
... as built in Soviet style with giant murals painted on one side We then drove to the Registan, the most famous site in all of Uzbekistan and Central Asia Visit My Page on Facebook : Departures1 - Global Adventures ...
Our Uzbek journey commences
After four flights and approximately 36 hours of travel John and I have landed in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan (in Uzbek: Toshkent; in Russian: Ташкент). Due to having chosen an organised tour offered by ...