Hotel President

53 Shokhrukh Street, Samarkand, 703000, Uzbekistan | 4 star hotel

Overview
Photos
Map
Stories

Travel Blogs from Samarkand

Samarcanda - La Via della Seta

A travel blog entry by anan-

127

"Siamo solo dei viaggiatori di questa vita. La vita � un caravanserraglio".
Poeta Uzbeco

Ci pensavo da un paio di anni, ovvero da quando finii di rileggere quel libro (Il Maestro dei Sogni) la cui argomentazione spaziava dall'esoterismo all'antropologia e all’etnologia; e la narrazione era ambientata, per buona parte, in …

Samarcande

A travel blog entry by malfhm

... aux couleurs variées, selon l'avancement de la récolte de coton ... et parfois parce que ce n'est pas du coton. Notre principale interrogation vient de la présence d'innombrables stations d'essence installées des deux cotés de la route, les unes (la plupart) fermées ou non achevées, les autres encombrées de longues files d'attente de voitures. Toutes les personnes interrogées conviennent qu'il y a un ...

City of culture and history

A travel blog entry by svenhermans

... en de groepleider sprak via zijn walkie-talkie tegen de hele groep via deze oortjes, ook al waren ze verspreid over de ganse site.

Om niet al te cultureel te doen, werd er een sportieve afwisseling aangeboden door de hoteleigenaar. Hij had enkele van zijn vrienden uitgenodigd om met hem de voetbalmatch tussen Tashkent en Adelaide (Australie) te bekijken. Het was de kwartfinale voor de Asian Cup (= Aziatische Champions League). ...

Souvenir? And a human chicken...

A travel blog entry by wallsy

... open road, with only a couple o' blokes in the way, when the real hilarity began. Before we left, in a moment of clarity, the 'chicken suit' from a fun-run of Alex's made it into the car. Seemed like a good thing to bring..?

Having already been searched and finding no "narcotics, machine guns or bazookas", of course these last two hit pay-dirt! And the only way to ...

Samarkand: Mythic and Majestic

A travel blog entry by mmtrip

... everywhere and families with their kids meet and socialize.

The bazaar is as well a great place to meet with locals and try some Uzbek delicacies. We love to hang around there and spend time with the women vendors.

Samarkand is a place where we met many other travelers and very particular ones: Cyclists.
All those cyclists are solo guys or couples coming mostly all the way from Europe and cycling since a while… we will meet one exception – ...