Category: Asia
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SAMARKAND – UZBEKISTAN (#2)
23/4/25 – 25/4/25 I arrived in Samarkand in the afternoon, on the Afrosiyob from Bukhara. After a long trip through Pakistan and Afghanistan (and the two nights I had spent in Uzbekistan so far having been rather busy), I was feeling a little exhausted – a comfortable bed and 2 nights relaxing in Samarkand awaited,…
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BUKHARA – UZBEKISTAN (#3)
22/4/25 – 23/4/25 Our overnight train from Termez pulled into Samarkand in the early hours of the morning, leaving me with a fair few hours to spare before my train to Bukhara (Dale was staying in Samarkand for a few days instead). There were still around 2 hours until sunrise, and so, after I dropped…
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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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