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Goodbye To The 'Stans
... encounter stampedes in your immigration queue (we have seen some that are close). However, it does bring with it one huge advantage. If you are lucky to get a window seat on a daytime flight on a clear day, you could get views of the planet that are unsurpassable. We've had such moments before when flying past Mount Everest, over Yosemite National Park etc. How would you like to get a view of the Caspian Sea from above?
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The Border Crossing You Dont Want To Repeat
... sight of grown ups (men and women) who emerge from the first queue, scamper across the courtyard and then launch themselves at the switchback like high jumpers while those whose places they just usurped watch helplessly would have been comical were it not for the fact that you also happen to be one of the laggards. This second queue builds up until release comes every 10 minutes or so when the gate is opened at the head, followed by a mad rush that resembles a sheep ...
Into A New Region
... One station that warrants special mention is the Kosmonavtlar station with its unearthly images of Amir Timur's astronomer grandson and celebrated Soviet cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin and Svetlana Tereshkova among others. The lighting in the metro stations, while adequate, made for a very surreal nightmarish feeling, as if one were going through to an after-life bureaucratic procedure and one almost expected Gagarin or Tereshkova to ask you to ...
Uzbekistan in Microcosm!!
6th to 13th June
Due to getting well behind with my blog entries, this is a quick overview of Uzbekistan, hence the title of this entry and will contain more photographs than text!!!
On Wednesday morning we arrived at the Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan border to find that the Turk side was shut for lunch!!
So we had to stand about for an hour in 40 degree plus temperatures until the lazy sods could be bothered to finish their lunch. ...
Wow, just look at all my money......
... away and out of site heard that I'd had an accident with a ladder (Lada!!) but they wouldn't let Luda to come up and help me out. Actually I think Luda's russian way of negotiating (very very aggressive) may have perhaps made things worse. In the end I handed over 50 E to the old man who shook hands with me but the young man refused until I gave him a bunch of Roubles as well - then he also shook hands on the deal. I was debating whether to admit my lapse to the ...
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