Hotel Mercury Dushanbe
str. Lev Tolstoy 9 Dushanbe, 734003, Tajikistan
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Mercury Dushanbe
January 08 Tajikistan
17 January 2008 I arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan early on the morning of the 17th, around 0430 or so. I got through the customs and passport control without incident, and proceeded to the baggage claim area. The entire reception area at the airport could be likened to an old greyhound bus terminal. Plus, it was bitterly cold inside the baggage …
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The long haul home
... the place, but seemed absolutely besotted by it. She was accompanied, or at least turned up at the door with a Tajik filmmaker who lives in Russia. He was also quite strange and kept on gliding through our house, beer in hand yet saying very little. I later realised it was because of the language barrier.
A nice discovery came when Michaela our French couchsurfer pulled out some Afghani hash, ....... "When in Rome". ...
Greasy soup land
... hole-ridden shoes, and the typing due to spontaneous applications to various places dotted around the globe, ranging from dog-sledding in Alaska to teaching kids in South Korea. Also given full thought, were dogging walking and crashing with my friend in New York, or going with good buddy Scot in the direction of either New Zealand or Norway.
To clarify things, the future is a little hazy. It’s amazing how ...
What a pretty place
... fact that he hadn’t learnt any English in the year that he’d been there.
A considerable while later, a 2 month passport and my entire luggage surprisingly intact I made my way through the passport control manned by one man and emerged outside. A man who looked like a carbon copy of Hulk Hogan, or that actor from the film the Wrestler who I’d been passing the time with in customs spotted me, and very kindly he ...
Finally...a note from Sarah!
... that I want to hop back on my bike so soon. Is this normal? Other biking fanatics will say yes, many of you will say “No!” Either way, on Wednesday or Thursday I’m planning on heading to the Fan mountains via a paved and populated road not far from Dushanbe. It may not be the Pamirs, but it is supposed to be beautiful.
Now I will go work on the other posts. Happy reading!
Later,
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