Bukhara Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I hate frigging taxi drivers! Reading this blog makes this pretty obvious but the taxi mafia at the turkmen and uzbek boarder take the cake for $%&^& - insert any rude you wish I was at the boarder 4 hours dealing with them - from being ripped out of my first taxi cause I wasn't paying the tourist rate, to not being allowed on the mini b...

October 18, 2007 Bukhara, Uzbekistan We are staying at the Sasha and Son Bed and Breakfast; room with bath costs $50/night. We are in the center of the old city and we can walk to all of the major sites. We are finding Bukhara gives us much more of a feeling that we are in a historic place than Samarkand. It's like a living museum, at least in t...

Apres un nouvel trajet en bus surchauffe, on arrive dans la ville sacree de Bukhara. Deja dans le taxi, en s aprrochant dans le centre ville, on decouvre les monuments. On nous a conseille une guesthouse depuis Samarcande et on y est accueilli par Medina qui parle anglais. Cette une vraie maison d accueil, ici et on vit avec la famille. Un autre...

Sometimes you just get a real 'feel' for a town - for the atmosphere, the people, the buildings. I definitely got this in Bukhara, and ended up staying for days more than planned, just soaking up the ancient silk road feel to this beautiful beautiful town. Its a fairy-tale town - of magical lamps, blue domes, Eastern beauties, winding alleys, qu...

I finally did some real tourist type stuff in the ancient city of Bukhara. Bukhara is only about an hour and a half car ride away and I go there often to visit other PCVs. This was my first time seeing the sights. Here are some photos from Laubi Hauz. There are many other photos I'll post soon, but I got sick of writing up the captions today.

Ok, I think I'm going to start this entry in bullet form, since it has been intimidating me and I need to get it written in some form. Maybe it will evolve into something more coherent as I go on. Let's see... - Went with Karen and Anna to the Places Where the Cars Leave for Bukhara near the Samarkand TsUM (Soviet Central Department Store that h...