Finding ali baba

Trip Start Jun 18, 2007
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

After a share taxi ride that took 9 hours instead of 6 I finally got to Khiva (hiva) a silk road city that was once a place where one could buy a slave and a camel in the same bazaar. The great thing about khiva was that it was and still is completely surrounded by a huge mud wall. The bad news is that it has been set up as a museum city and as such has been cleaned out of many of the locals and really feels too clean - i want to see some camels and some slaves!

Again there were no tourists at all and indeed all the hotels in inner khiva were closed as they were being renovated - in two weeks it was going to open. Again mosques and blue domes featured heavily so i didn't buy the ticket to see everything the cost of $12 was a bit rich too i thought. However this didn't stop me seeing what I wanted to see - as a quick 500 sum note to the old ladies (40 cents) guarding the sites saw me getting into everything. As a tip for anyone wanting to go, one day is certainly enough but make sure you climb a minaret at sunset as the view is great - just give the ladies 500 sum (minus a ticket) instead of the official tourist rate of 2000 sum.

It was now back to Bukhara and onto Samarkand           
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