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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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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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