Samarkand – Uzbekistan

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LATEST POSTS:

  • TERMEZ – UZBEKISTAN

    21/4/25 We woke up early, ready to tackle the challenge of the day – exiting Afghanistan at the Hairatan border crossing, with Uzbekistan. It began simply enough, with a cab ride to the shared taxi station, and a quickly-negotiated seat in a shared taxi headed for the border. It didn’t take long to reach Hairatan,…

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  • MAZAR-I-SHARIF – AFGHANISTAN

    19/4/25 – 21/4/25 We had spoken to Hijrat, from the Kabul guesthouse over the phone the night before, to work out the best way of getting from Kabul to Mazar overland – we settled on taking a shared taxi, slightly more expensive than the bus, slightly quicker though, which was a positive tradeoff. The next…

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  • BAMYAN – AFGHANISTAN

    17/4/25 – 18/4/25 Getting out to Bamyan is not particularly difficult to do by shared taxi – the slightly harder part is getting from Bamyan to Band-e-Amir and back, as most Afghans tend to take their own vehicles out here. To save ourselves a bit of hassle, we’d organised with ATE for a driver and…

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  • KABUL – AFGHANISTAN

    15/4/25 – 17/4/25 After getting out of our taxi from Torkham at the entrance to the Wazir Akhbar Khan neighbourhood, we began the search for our accommodation – the GetINN Guesthouse. I’d been given the address, including the door number, but given our lack of internet and Google Maps, it did take us a few…

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  • TORKHAM – PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN

    15/4/25 We considered the price of taking a cab to Karkhano Market, on the western edge of Peshawar, and then finding a shared taxi onwards to Torkham, but instead chose to take the not-much-more-expensive but certainly more convenient route of ordering an InDrive for the 60km journey.  The Torkham Border, as it is known, is…

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  • PESHAWAR – PAKISTAN

    14/4/25 – 15/4/25 After arriving at Pirwadhai, in Rawalpindi – after our ridiculous journey from Gilgit-Baltistan, we had a short walk to the top of the street to find buses going to Peshawar. Luckily, the drive between the two cities is both relatively short, and relatively popular, and so in no time we had located…

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