Country Info
- Tashkent
- Capital
- Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
- Currency
- 25,155,064
- Population
- UZ
- Country Code
Tashkent Slideshow
Tashkent
Travel Blogs from Tashkent, Uzbekistan
One Month in Durmen Host Family
... dried tomatoes I found in the market. This Sunday I'm going to try cooking pasta for my family. Uzbekistan, or at least the area around Tashkent, the capital, is industrialized and structured. The Soviets left their mark on the unimaginative ...
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 ...
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... 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, ...
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 ...
Tashkent - the beginning
... It was pretty shitty, as I discovered later, but I neer mind, because it was 311st of December and I planned to party all time I was in Tashkent. And I thought of the city as a very warm place, too! It was -20 there on the New Year's eve, if not less. I ...
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 ...
Peace Corps Training Uzbekistan-18
... the language barrier and social isolation (I live a little ways away from others). I am writing from Durmon (near the Tashkent capital), Uzbekistan. Jen, the other water engineer (there are only TWO of us in this new program), walked with her host sister ...
Saying goodbye to Tashkent for two weeks...
Here we go! After months of planning, I'm finally on my way. I left Tashkent a bit before Isaac left Seattle, so I beat him to London. That's OK, I was ...
A Modern City, A Traditional Live
... through a narrow mountain pass so we were put in four regular cars and off we went for our 5-hour drive. Tashkent is a very large city – 2.5 million. They have been doing excavations that indicate there was a city on the site ...
Tashkent
20/04/2012 I was terrified entering Uzbekistan: I expected bribary SHAAD by policemen, hateing Jews, trying to cheat me - nothing. They are very friendly, show effection, try o help The plane was late, and it was difficult to come to Gulnara - big story, ...
Getting ready for a big event...
Well, sometimes it seems like 90% of my job is administrative stuff and only 10% is out doing cool stuff! But really, the admin stuff can be cool, too. It gets to be pretty intense around here while ramping up for 'big events' - my affectionate ...
Magical world of Oriental ceramic
... information about Uzbekistan. * Remarkable sights of Uzbekistan. * Tashkent. * Samarkand. ...
Hospitable Asia
Fascinating, full of contrast program go through the territory of three Central Asian republics: Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Majestic minarets, blue domes of mausoleums, ancient madrasah and impressive caravansaries will tell you about past ...
House hunting in Tashkent
Great day of house hunting in Tashkent has to come with some pictures, and stories. I can't be too long-winded about this, but I'm bowled over by the weirdness - the unexpectedness - of this place! Little jewels of modernity tucked away in layers upon ...
Wasted days
I apologise in advance! This entry is going to be one big rant, so feel free to move on to the next. I came back to Tashkent, moving on from Bukhara before having seen any of it, to get my Turkmen transit visa. I travelled back the day before the embassy ...
To the heart of Tamerlane`s empire
... `s empire Fascinating cultural and cognitive tour will meet you with ancient history and culture of Uzbekistan, with well-known old monuments of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. These cities still keep inside the memory of ...
Great Silk Road
... 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, ...
Tashkent tales
... of beautiful hand made things. Wandered into a garden which ended up being the Japanese Gardens. Must be lots of love in Tashkent - weddings everywhere, at least 10 in the Japanese gardens, all doing photos. There was a lady with doves for 5,000 ...
Mountain Kingdom Aksu-Karavshin
Journey, where we would like to invite you, is passing at northern part of Turkestan ridge – one of four ridges forming Pamiro-Alay mountain massif. Here – in most beautiful region of Aksu peak and Karavshin river – you can completely ...