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A Khiva le a pena.
Khiva foi a primeira parada dentre os lugares que motivaram a viagem ao Uzbequistão. Para tanto, pegamos o vôo mais exótico de nossas vidas até hoje, a rota Tashkent-Urgench, cumprida ao longo de aproximadamente uma hora a bordo de um valoroso, e deveras antigo, avião Tupolev da Uzbekistan Airways. O Tupolev, de fabricação soviética, tem sido …
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Bukhara and Khiva
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Famously in Bukhara, two Brits named Stoddard and Connelly were thrown into a bug infested pit and eventually ordered to dig their own graves, before been beheaded. Stoddard for showing, on numerous occasions, disrespect for the Khan, and Connelly mainly as punishment for the Queen’s lack of response to the Khan’s correspondence. Khiva was a notorious slave trade market where Turkmen tribes in the region would bring, amongst others, captured Russians to ...
Ancient City Of Khiva
... Khiva was the capital city before it's annexing by the Russian empire in1873 during The Great Game, the name given by British intelligence officer Arther Conolly for the British and Russian strategic rivalry of the time. We headed through the gates of the old city to view the Djuma Mosque and Itchen Kala. As impressed as I was with the architecture and restoration, ...
Broken Plane is good luck i think
... ten minutes before they directed us onto the bus and back to the terminal. We found out it was a faulty landing gear, therefore they needed time to get us another new plane. By noon we were back at the plane, the same plane. "They fixed it!", the stewardess said happily.
At this point the phone calls went out from whinny Americans and Brits that were part of a large tour ...


