Country Info
- Tashkent
- Capital
- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
- Currency
- 25,155,064
- Population
- UZ
- Country Code
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Uzbekistan, country 118
Salam, viele Gruesse aus Samarqand, Uzbekistan, Land Nr. 118:-) Ich habe erfolgreich die Grenze ueberquert, auf der tajikischen Seite wollte der Zoellner mein Customs Formular sehen, hatte keins im Pamir bekommen... Er wollte eine "Straffe", hm, ob ...
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 ...
Frustrations...
Salom! So it looks like my adventure in Uzbekistan is coming to an abrupt end. If the visa office does not respond by tomorrow, all the UZ-18s will be on their way to Tashkent and then back to the United States. There is still a chance that we ...
Il est ne ?
Salut a Tous, Ahh, la douceur de vivre de Tachkent et le bonheur de retrouver un honnete 16 degres au-dessus de zero. C'est l'occasion de se ballader en tee shirt et de laver les pulls, de se detendre les jambes puisqu'on n'a plus a chercher ses appuis ...
There's no
... another - and I guess that's all of us - think again! As soon as we reached the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, differences became clear. The Uzbek border guards actually smiled and were nice to us! The scenery changed - less vast open ...
Moynaq - home of the Aral Sea disaster
Moynaq was once a big fishing town on the edge of the aral sea. After the soviets decided that uzbekistan was to be the world's leading producer of cotton (trying to outproduce the USA) they started using the aral sea to irrigate the rest of the country ...
The Verdict
Early in the morning we go back to the police station. There are more forms to sign. I get a statement and the bike and my documents are released. We go to the hospital to have my wound dressed again. It is still bleeding and the ankle is very swollen. ...
ancient Khiva
Khiva did not disappoint. the old mud fortress walls still surround the old city, and everything inside is just beautiful - blue tile minarets, medrassas, mosques, mud brick buildings... just amazing. the ~5 hour ride today through the Kyzylkum ...
Samarkand
... with draft beer - I hit the same place 3 times in one day! I am increasingly finding people who speak english in uzbekistan, and tourists. I ran into a group of about 20 older americans, who were themselves a little bland, but their tour guide was ...
CARPETS!!!!!
CARPETS!!!!!! Sunday October 18, 2009 One of our tour members really wanted to buy a carpet. We had looked in Bukhara and I had gone back with him to the shop for a second time to see if ...
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
... . Hadn't seen tourists for a while now so it was a nice surprise to see them here just\ outside of Turkmenabat before the Uzbekistan border. DAY 91 " Border crossing and desert winds" - Bushcamp to Buhkara (135km) Today was expected to be a long ...
The mighty buck
... or even an ATM which aren't as plentiful as I was lead to believe by the guide book. They are offering a rate of 1500 Uzbekistan Zum to $1. That’s a tiny bit less than what the official rate was when I looked it up two months ago so it ...
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 ...
Site Announcement!!
Salom! I finally got my site placement!! I will be out west in the Khorezm Region of the UZ, right next to Karakalpakistan (the semi autonomous region that is part of the UZ but has a wierd relationship with the rest of the country) where the Aral ...
The last place on earth you'd expect great art
The western most state of Karakalpakstan is pretty much uzbekistan's no-man's land. Nukus is pretty close to the turkmenistan border (which I was supposed to be crossing), and in a place, the end of the earth. However, the Savitsky art museum makes this a ...
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 ...
Les bouts de ficelles
Chorsu. Quatre chemins, quatre routes vers le monde. Un bazar gigantesque, à l'orientale, autour duquel s'étend une cité soviétique construite sur les ruines d'un formidable tremblement de terre. Au nord-ouest du bazar a survécu pourtant un quartier ...
Airport Woes
... ; My flight east went from Bucharest, Romania to Istanbul, Turkey and finally to Tashkent, Uzbekistan for this change of countries. I had a very long layover in Istanbul, 9 hours. My husband had ...
city tour of Tashkent
... ; a mother who has lost her son or sons in service to Uzbekistan. We were lucky to find an older couple there in traditional Uzbekistan dress and they did not mind having their photos taken, in fact he was quite proud to talk to us as he had just ...
Opera in Uzbekistan
I got to Tashkent at 3pm and found out that there was a time change and it was an hour earlier. a free hour! My chinese watch was so excited that when I tried to change the time it promptly died, never coming back to life. I found a nice place to ...
Sumalak, le repas des anges
À Chakhimardan - enclave ouzbèke en territoire kyrghyze et un des sept lieux saints de l'Islam -, plus qu'ailleurs, on respecte la fête du printemps, Navruz, et la préparation du sumalak. Depuis des siècles, en Asie centrale, en Afghanistan, au ...
Last day in Tashkent
... Almaty (well, not technically the capital anymore but..), Bishkek, Dushanbe... all very nice places. I most enjoyed pakistan and uzbekistan. tajikistan and afghanistan were tied for the next place (tajikistan has great things to offer, but the .. ...
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 ...
Het hart van de zijderoute
In een enkel woord: een prachtland. Uzbekistan is het land dat ons tot nu toe het meest heeft verbaasd. Marie-Ann heeft dit het Frankrijk van centraal Azië gedoopt. 't Is een echt vakantieland! We hadden net zoals iedereen al wel eens vaag over Samarkand ...
Peace be with you
... . So I'm not going to my site now, and it won't be in the next few days either, but unless the entire PC presence in Uzbekistan leaves, then I'm staying. Even if I have to wait 2 months, that's only a fraction of my 2 year service here. I think about ...
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 ...
Oct 12, 2010
Attack!!!
... Warning: The opinions and statements expressed in this journal entry are not representing Peace Corps, the US government, or the Uzbekistan government. Just wanted to share with you my first experience with 3rd world diseases. I arrived at site 3 ...
a Beautiful Necropolis
... to do the prayers for them. Maret says that coming to this necropolis is like going to Mecca for many of the people in Uzbekistan. There were certainly many local people there today but it is Sunday and they have the day off and can do this. ...