Samarkand – Uzbekistan

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LATEST POSTS:

  • HANOI – VIETNAM

    23/1/23 – 26/1/23 Waking up at 3am either means that you’re having a bad night’s sleep, or you have an early morning flight to catch! Luckily for me, it was the latter, and after a quick drop-off at the airport, I was on my way to Vietnam. I won’t bore anyone with the details of…

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  • URGENCH – UZBEKISTAN

    2/7/2022 – 3/7/2022 The trolleybus to Urgench (the last of its kind in Uzbekistan!) took around an hour to reach the city centre. Following this, it was another 20 minute walk to my accommodation for the night. Urgench is an incredibly Soviet city, with large, tree-lined boulevards, and colossal concrete buildings dotting the landscape. As…

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  • KHIVA – UZBEKISTAN

    29/6/2022 – 2/7/2022 I woke up this morning, ate breakfast, and made sure that I was ready to depart for Khiva. There are several ways to get from Bukhara to Khiva, including a train line, private drivers, shared taxis, and marshrutkas. I had spoken to the guy who ran the place I had stayed at…

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  • BUKHARA – UZBEKISTAN

    26/6/2022 – 29/6/2022 To get from Samarkand to Bukhara, I had decided to forgo the comfort of the Afrosiyob train in favour of the Soviet-built Sharq train, both so I could leave Samarkand later, and so that I could experience some historical Soviet engineering. I left the guesthouse at around 11:00am, and caught a Yandex…

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  • SAMARKAND – UZBEKISTAN

    22/6/2022 – 26/6/2022 This morning, I woke up early, gathered my things, woke up the hotel manager (who was asleep on the couch by his desk!) and checked out. Whilst waiting for a Yandex I had ordered to the train station – you absolutely need this app on your phone if you’re travelling in Uzbekistan,…

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  • TASHKENT – UZBEKISTAN

    19/6/2022 – 22/6/2022 This morning, I woke up early, double-checked all my bags, and checked out of my hotel in Istanbul. I was finally off to Uzbekistan! I caught the same Havaist bus that I caught from the airport, again 52 lira ($4.20), expecting the trip to take a similar amount of time. I was…

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