Country Info
- Tashkent
- Capital
- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
- Currency
- 25,155,064
- Population
- UZ
- Country Code
Uzbekistan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uzbekistan
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. ...
No Man's Land
Shower , Breakfast and were off. Dan is still feeling delicate today and Gozel was giving him great advice over the breakfast table. I didnt know where to look. Insert Toilet humour here. We had another four hour drive ahead of us and Gozel made sure we ...
Samarkand
... and tame. Tonight was once such occasion - there was a Dutch couple and a Swiss guy who've cycled all the way to Uzbekistan from Italy and Switzerland respectively. When we do get to go sight-seeing all we can say is "Wow!" This city is amazing. ...
Oct 17, 2010
Oct 21, 2010
I came, I saw, I puked
We started what turned out to be an epic journey across the desert to Bukhara quite easily by getting a taxi into Urgench with an ex boxer with an entire mouthful of gold teeth. Then the fun began. We had to try and negotiate a shared taxi ...
Site Announcement
... available freedom that PCVs have at their sites. She seems to be very comfortable here and has established a normal life in Uzbekistan. While lounging around I pictured myself in her shoes, doing my thing...doing laundry, going to the bazaar, hanging ...
...and the fat lady sang...
... of the sole opinions of the author, and do not reflect the opinions of the Unites States government, Peace Corps, or the Uzbekistan government.) Due to events beyond my control, I will have to leave Uzbekistan on June 1st. This is the day my visa ...
Babur's Hometown
... system isn't half bad here. By the way, a mashrutka is a small van that does short to semi-long distance trips here in Uzbekistan and also in other former USSR countries. It costs next to nothing, but also the facilities are next to nothing. No A/C , ...
Yallama, Yallama, Yallama, Yallama, Yallama!
Yay, we're going to Kazakhstan today. In opposite world. Filled with the enthusiasm of getting into a new country we swapped some dollars and made our way to the Kazakh border just north of Tashkent. Closed. What a surprise. We ...
Bizarre and Bazaar
So, my second day in Tashkent wasn’t all that different from the first. We started the day with a walking tour of the city. Fortunately, this walking tour was both guided (which is much improved over my own wanderings yesterday) and ...
Sous la chaleur
Apres un nouvel trajet en bus surchauffe, on arrive dans la ville sacree de Bukhara. Deja dans le taxi, en s aprrochant dans le centre ville, on decouvre les monuments. On nous a conseille une guesthouse depuis Samarcande et on y est accueilli par Medina ...
Khiva
... have to 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 ...
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 ...
Beautiful subways
... him as an enemy because he conquered them. We passed the Hotel Uzbekistan on the corner across from the park. It is a huge hotel that was the largest in Central Asia when first ...
Back on the Silk Road
Samarqand was the first stop in Uzbekistan after a surprisingly easy border crossing. We were expecting this to be one of the worst with thorough searches and the rampant bureaucracy associated with the ex-Soviet states. We were through and on our ...
Uzbek Jewel
... city, another of the ancient Silk Road cities with plenty of the old character remaining. One thing I have noticed in Uzbekistan is the lack of the dreadful Ex-Soviet concrete architecture, it seems to be a mix of old traditional and modern, ...
Oasis oriental
Boukhara. Une ville oasis au coeur du désert rouge, le Kyzyl Kum. La vie y est née très tôt grâce au fleuve Zéravchan, qui y déverse d'importantes réserves d'eau et à d'intenses travaux d'irrigation. A la différence d'autres villes de la Route ...
And the "pin" will now land on...
... for the next 2 years...Navoi. This city is in-between Bukhara and Samarkand...the two most historical and tourist-type cities in Uzbekistan. You are probably saying to yourself, "great, thanks Amber, i still have no clue where the heck you are." ...
28 hours and counting
Hello! I apologize for the delay in updating this blog. I have had a difficult time accessing it. All is well in Uzbekistan and I have been awake for the past 28 hours! Yep, the Super Bowl party was at 4am my time and we were able to watch it at the ...
"yout" camp or Non-nomadic nomads
... ; It was a very disappointing experience. We found out that there are no more nomads in Uzbekistan or any of the old Soviet republics. When all these countries came under communist sway, they were forced to settle ...
Danse avec les woulfes
... et bon courage pour la nouvelle annee. RV Now here's some valuable informations about Karakalpakhstan and Kazakhstan - Trains from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan don't depart anymore from Nukus, but from Kongrat, 100km northwest, everyday at 9.15am, though ...
Silhouettes
Moynaq. Un port échoué aux rives d'une mer qui n'existe plus, ou presque. Une ville à l'agonie où survivent moins de 2 000 âmes qui ont cessé de croire aux miracles. Derrière les palissades des maisons de pêcheurs, aux portes faites d'une plaque ...