Tag: Uzbekistan
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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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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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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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