Tag: Travel Blog
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ALMATY – KAZAKHSTAN
27/11/23 – 30/11/23 I woke up feeling just as bad as the day before, and when time came to check out, I had to very slowly lower myself down the stairs as to avoid passing out. After getting some cold fresh air into my lungs, I had enough energy to walk about 15 minutes to…
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BISHKEK – KYRGYZSTAN
25/11/23 – 27/11/23 Tashkent Airport’s departures area has been completely overhauled, and it is very much worth mentioning, as it points to Uzbekistan’s development as a tourism destination. After passing through immigration, I hunkered down by the bus gates with my current book (Fairy Tale by Stephen King), and waited for my flight to Bishkek…
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BUKHARA – UZBEKISTAN (#2)
21/11/23 – 24/11/23 After a hefty breakfast, I headed out to meet with my friend Sabrina and her sister, Parvina. We met up at a coffee shop not far from the old town, and had a lovely time catching up. Sabrina headed off to university, but Parvina and I had something else planned for her…
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TASHKENT – UZBEKISTAN (#2)
20/11/23 After a quick shower and breakfast, I checked out of Hotel Sharq and headed for the airport. Dushanbe Airport is a classic Soviet-style airport, with a few vendors open selling coffee and soft drinks, and a large duty-free shop. By some stroke of luck, on the same flight to Tashkent as me was an…
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DUSHANBE – TAJIKISTAN
18/11/23 – 20/11/23 This morning, I got up at around 5:30, packed my bits and pieces away, and took a Yandex to the airport for my 8am flight to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. I’d been reading quite a bit about the Tajiki Civil War, which had broken out upon the dissolution of the Soviet…
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SEOUL – SOUTH KOREA
15/11/23 – 17/11/23 No qualms about the AirAsia flight, everything ran smoothly, and I’d pre-ordered a nasi lemak for $7 which I thought, compared to airport pricing, was pretty good. We landed on time at klia2, which I found to be much better stocked and maintained than the main terminal at KLIA. Given I had…
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#2)
22/7/23 – 23/7/23 Thanks to my British passport, I can get visa-free entry into Turkey, saving me the $90 e-Visa fee I had to pay last time when I only had my Australian one! After navigating through the long, Uzbek-filled immigration queue (flights from Samarkand and Tashkent had both arrived within 30 minutes of each…
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