24 Hours From Aktau, Kazakhstan To Kungrad, Uzbekistan I awoke in the sweltering summer heat of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh summer is dry and dusty and the fierce Central Asian sun is relentless, even in the early morning. The old motel room I was staying in was stale with...
Tashkent is the heart of Uzbekistan If you’re one of the few travellers who make it to this isolated and rarely visited Central Asian nation- if you make it past the post-Soviet bureaucracy, if you come to terms with the strange black market currency system and...
Tashkent Is a City Like No Other In Uzbekistan It’s a huge sprawl, densely packed with drab Soviet buildings and ugly apartment blocks. Tashkent is a city that lost its history when an earthquake levelled Uzbekistan’s capital, a city that was rebuilt from...
‘For Lust Of Knowing What Should Not Be Known, We Take The Golden Road To Samarkand’- James Elroy Flecker. The Silk Road city of Samarkand has long lured travellers and conquerors in search of wealth and the exotic in Central Asia. In 1913 British poet...
Bukhara, the beautiful Silk Road City with a dark history. Bukhara is majestic. It’s beautiful. Sand stone buildings, tall minarets and vast mosques greet the traveller who arrives in what is one of Uzbekistan’s, and Central Asia’s finest...
It had taken weeks to reach the old city of Khiva. I’d crossed the Caspian Sea, travelled through the endless desert of Kazakhstan and then down into the boundless waste of Uzbekistan’s remote and arid Karakalpakstan province, past the rusting...
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