Margilan, Uzbekistan

... 23 year old Russians celebrating a birthday buying us copious amounts of vodka and making us dance to cheesy Russian pop... MARGILAN Surprise, surprise - it turns out you can get a hangover from drinking too much vodka! We visited a silk factory ...

... we could choose the route and make stops. Rather than taking the main road between Andijan and Tashkent, we detoured a bit to Margilan to do a tour of a recommended silk and cotton factory. Our guide, Nasir, had worked in production at the factory (as had ...