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The Silk Road: Ichon Qala, Frozen in Time...Almost
This is a top pick! Sharing a car with Yuki, Motoko, and another Japanese traveler, I headed west across the white Kyzylkum desert, a misnomer in the winter because it translates as "red sands." Seeing no red sands for hours, but wide expanses of flat, sparse shrublands, we crossed the Amu Darya, now frozen solid, and reached the Hotel Arqonchi, the only one we could …
Quelques impressions de Tashkent
... ce que le plan laissait prévoir et nous marchons beaucoup, dans des rues presque désertes. Ayant lu que Tashkent était la plus grande ville d'Asie centrale, avec 1,7 million d'habitants, nous nous demandons où ils se trouvent. Parcourant une nouvelle avenue en chantier, à la manière d'un Champs-Elysées soviétique (immeubles en marbre, vitrines démesurées, trottoirs trop larges...) nous ...
From Slave Market to Museum
Stretching from Chang-an (modern day Xian) in the east to shipping points on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, the Great Silk Road was a network of shifting caravan tracks passing through some of Asia's highest mountains and deserts. For centuries it formed the trade route through which not only valuable and exotic goods, but also ideas moved across continents.
Central Asia lies right in the middle of this epic route and ...
Museums, Mosques, Madresses & Minarets
The overnight train from Bukhara was great. It was comfortable, we got the cabin to ourselves and it saved us a night's accommodation.
Jalil, the owner of the Meros B&B where we would be staying had sent a driver to pick us up for $10 and take us back the 35kms to Khiva from Urgench (where the station is). Meros is a family run traditonal house converted to a B&B and Jalil's father had painstakingly painted all the ceilings with traditional Islamic patterns - ...
Khiva ou la beauté de l'art islamique...
Hi everyone, I'm writing you from North India where we are since 3 weeks and where we enjoy the cool mountain temperatures as in the rest of India it's monsoon season and therefore really humid and uncomfortable. Our blog is exactly 3 months late in the updates and I'm sorry for that as I know many of you are asking for more travel stories. By the way, thanks to you all for following our adventures.
It is not easy for me to update the blog on ...
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