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Khiva, Uzbekistan Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 9 September 2011
This week’s Wish You Were Here post comes from Cynthia of CynthiaOrd.com, Thoughts on Tourism, People and the Earth. Cynthia is fascinated with travel and tourism as an industry and its impacts. She likes to visit unlikely places and see how many people she can convince to go there. Be sure to check out her [...]
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We’re Somewhere Between Russia and Mongolia
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 18 August 2011
It is that time. We may or may not have Internet until we reach Ulaanbataar. By the time you read this we will probably be somewhere in the middle of the desert in Mongolia or stuck on a road in Uzbekistan somewhere.
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A Walk through Bukhara
Blog: 501 Places - 8 August 2011
Something of an experiment – this post is displayed via Youtube. All the words are there – they are found on slides and set to a wonderfully atmospheric piece of music. Do let me know what you think of this as a way of presenting a post. {lang: 'en-GB'}A Walk through Bukhara is a post [...]A Walk through Bukhara is a post from: 501 Places
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The Marketplace: Lonely Planet Blog Carnival #23
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 28 April 2011
The theme of this Blog carnival is a journey through a market or bazaar anywhere in the world. These thoughtful and exciting stories unravel life in the marketplace experienced at different times but all coming together here for you to transcend from wherever you are at this moment to where the Lonely Planet Travel bloggers think you would love to be!!
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A wide-eyed look at an Uzbek bazaar
Blog: The Turkish Life - 26 April 2011
In late March 2004, two suicide bombings tore through the Chorsu bazaar area in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing 15.
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Eight Destinations that Make Us Dreamy-eyed
Blog: Seat of Our Pants - 22 April 2011
We may not be on the road at the moment, living as we do in the great comforts of our San Francisco apartment. There are times, though, when we take a bit of time away from our busy schedules to poor over maps and travel guides, dreaming of the next trip. In anticipation of [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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Day 282: Ready to leave Uz
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 26 December 2010
Intricate mosaic work at the avenue of mausoleums - the finest of the Islamic world Today must be the low point for me in Uzbekistan. Yes Samarkand is impressive… but the city lacks the small town feel of Bukhara and Khiva. And infrastructure is… well, not so friendly. Watched 3 buses pass by the station without stopping, WTF? Shah-i-Zinda (avenue of mausoleums), Samarkand I’m getting
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Day 277: Train to Khiva
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 25 December 2010
The restored main gate of the city of Khiva Whoaa Khiva! A superbly preserved & restored Silk Road city. The moment we stepped foot within the city’s fortress-like mud walls, I must’ve droped my jaw like many ancient merchants did when they first arrived, having hauled for days through the desert. You don’t need much imagination to feel Khiva’s glorious past, much of which still shimmers.
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Day 276: A country run dry
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 21 December 2010
Not your everyday gas station Getting around Uzbek at times feels like traveling to the end of the world. There seems to be fuel shortage here – some petrol stations are empty and deserted, some have hundreds of cars lining up outside. What a huge difference: in Turkmenistan they have gas burning to waste, in Uzbek the gas stations have run dry. And they’re neighbours. It’s probably the
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Day 275: Arriving on the Silk Road
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 18 December 2010
Mir-i-Arab Medressa, Bukhara Uzbekistan! Finally, after the most corrupt chain of taxi drivers at yesterday’s border who cheated us and stopped us from hitching rides with trustworthy Irani trucks. Don't you feel like you're on the Silk Road? Bukhara is our first stop in the country and also the first signs of the ancient Silk Road. Beautifully aged Islamic architecture and caravanserais
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Travel without regrets
Blog: The Turkish Life - 2 December 2010
If I had to pick the worst place I've ever been, it just might be Termez, Uzbekistan (pictured). But I don't regret passing through one bit. I had gone with some friends to the southern town to cross the border into Afghanistan for a short visit to Mazar-e Sharif. (This was back in late 2004, when the situation there seemed relatively optimistic.) Though our paperwork was all in order, the Uzbeks didn't want us to leave.
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Infrastructure War: How Trying to Fix a Problem Can Sometimes Become a Fight
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 21 October 2010
by Sam Kendall KF12 Tajikistan Currently there is a conflict brewing in Central Asia. The conflict is between a few different countries, and the cause is infrastructure. We've learned how infrastructure can raise costs of microfinance. Learn how it can raise costs of regular items, and the cost of nationalistic tendencies. (with videos)
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Eastern or Western Route North from Tashkent to Russia?
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 4 October 2010
Before leaving Tashkent I spent several hours pouring over countless maps of Kazakhstan and Russia, trying to work out the best route to Mongolia.
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Day 218: Visas = bitch
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 18 September 2010
Istanbul - floating fast food on the Bosphorus Been in Turkey a week now, but seen more consulates and banks than mosques and bazaars. Damn them visas. We're in the process of applying for four - Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan - to pave way for our overland route home. It feels like a game of scavenger hunt where one must first decipher the various countries' requirements,
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Drinking Cultures from Around the Globe
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 4 June 2010
There is something very strange about the way humans approach booze, and how each nation address alcohol both politically and culturally in extremely unique ways. For example, in America we make it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy alcohol.
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ATC 2010 Mongol Rally Route
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 30 May 2010
It’s official! We’ve finally ironed out our route details to the finest detail. We have decided to head from London to Paris, and from Paris to Luxembourg. After a break, we’ll head to Nuremberg and the Prague for the 2010 Czech Out Party, which we’re all very excited about.
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Day 459: Doctorin’ The Docket
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 11 May 2010
Sun 4 Apr: I may have mentioned this before, but for some stupid reason you have to register three days after you arrive in Uzbekistan. The problem is you cannot register that you’re staying with a private citizen without a ton of hassle and paperwork. As a consequence, CouchSurfing is technically illegal. What most people do is [...]
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Day 456: Bish Bash Bosh
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 1 May 2010
Thu 1st Apr: Sorry about the lack of blog updates this month – I’ve been hammering the website to make it all fabby and groovy for when the telly show starts in July and people pop in for a visit! So, where I was I? Oh yeah, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan!! So I was up and at ’em at [...]
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Day 453: My Kingdom For A Biro
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 16 April 2010
Mon 29th Mar: By 9am I was back outside the Kyrgyzstan embassy. I put my name down on the list and headed over to the DHL office to see if my replacement camcorder had arrived. It was still being held in customs. Frustratingly, this meant I would be without a decent video camera [...]
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Days 451-452: Movin’ On Up
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 16 April 2010
Sat 27th – Sun 28th Mar; Woke up at Baha’s flat wondering if anybody got the number of the truck that hit me before stumbling back to Fred’s. Her mate in Samakand (down south) had just split up from her better half and so Fred planned to head down there to give her some moral [...]
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Day 450: The Incident
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 16 April 2010
Fri 26th Mar: I had real trouble dragging myself out of bed this morning. I asked Fred to wake me up, which she did, but what I should have asked is for Fred to wake me up by throwing a bucket of cold water over my head. I got to the bank to pay [...]
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Day 449: The Great Game
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 8 April 2010
Thu 25th Mar 2010; The plan today was simple. Well, I thought it was. First up, visit the Kyrgyzstan Embassy and hand over my passport, while that visa is processing put my application in to the Turkmenistan Embassy, then scope out the Afghan embassy (which my book tells me issues visas ‘on the spot’) [...]
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Day 448: Paranoid? Who Said…
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 8 April 2010
Wed 24th Mar 2010; Paranoid? Who Said That? I woke to find the two guys that I was sharing a room with sitting on their beds staring at me like I had just dropped from space and got their grandmother pregnant. This was disconcerting to say the least. I got up, gathered up my gear [...]
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Day 447: The Aral Sea Disaster
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 8 April 2010
Tue 23 Mar 2010; The train arrived at the town of Beyneu at about ten minutes to five in the morning, enjoyed a cup of tea in the little station cafe and after about an hour, I clambered on board the train for a place called Kungrad in Uzbekistan. We got to the border about [...]
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Travelling through the Islamic world
Blog: 501 Places - 9 November 2009
Mention that you are travelling to most Muslim countries and you are likely to get a look of concern. “Is it safe?”; “Why do you want to go there?”; “I don’t understand why they don’t like us?”; all likely reactions if you live in the US or UK. And this is a shame, as people [...]
