Hotel Nazira Bukhara

N. Khusainov St. 1 Bukhara, Uzbekistan

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And I Wonder, Yes I Wonder, Who'll Stop the Rain?

A travel blog entry by zullyzazaza

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... was the earliest architectural examples of the fallout from "the great game". After this, we headed to the Bolo Hauz Mosque and then onto the ninth century Mausoleum of the Samanides, an amazing example of early Muslim architecture and influence on the region.
Lunch provided us with perhaps the best pilaf I have ever tasted and both the guide and Saddardine our driver spend most of the time inquiring about life in Canada. When I asked if ...

No Noah in this Ark!

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... girl aged 10 and doing exceptionally at school) went to work without batting an eye. Delnosa dried and put away all the dishes and Jamschid (having prepared the melon and helped with the fish) cleared away the table etc. I stood like a helpless chicken.

Of great surprise was the work patterns of the parents. I’d already been told that Jamshid’s father worked in Russia, I went on to learn that his Dad works in construction in Moscow, because ...

Combien de "stan" me reste-t-il?

A travel blog entry by triptherapy

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Chers amis et lecteurs, famille et autres curieux,

Me voici rendu en Ouzbekistan. Un long moment s'est ecoule entre mon dernier post et aussi beaucoup de kilometres, des visages, des sourires et aussi un peu de stress pour obtenir les differents visas. Je vous ai laisse en Turquie et ca me semble une eternite. Mais l'acces a internet devient de plus en plus sporadique et comme chacun sait, l'Iran n'est pas une reference en matiere de liberte. ...

Als James Bond door Turkmenistan

A travel blog entry by maartenmarieann

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... en hij vond het schitterend om met een echte zeeman te kunnen praten. Maarten werd niet meer bij naam genoemd, maar met het allergrootste respect ‘capitan’ genoemd. Mohamad, de treinman, nodigde ons uit naar zijn huis waar we (dit verbaast ondertussen ook niemand meer) mochten blijven logeren. Na even aarzelen, in de gids stond er een fantastisch budgethotel in een gerestaureerd historisch huis, toch toegehapt. Mohamad vond het enig, betaalde de taxi, loodste ...

I came, I saw, I puked

A travel blog entry by tomandamy

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... boats in a dried out riverbed for which the driver had to pay out to some kind of sea gypsey's. The journey ended up taking about 7 hours in the sun and I had a small girl asleep in my lap for most of it whilst listening to our driver's random uzbek music/europop really loud and him making about 5 hours of phone calls. Finally we arrived in Bukhara, a preserved old town set round a small pond which is centuries ...