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Silk Road Cities
Blog: Travelicious - 12 August 2009
Greetings from Uzbekistan! We have visited the Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara with their many magnificent medrassas (Islamic schools) and mosques, all beautifully decorated with exotic blue mosaics and turquoise domes. One afternoon we sat at a rooftop restaurant in Bukhara enjoying the view out over one of these striking buildings, watching the light slowly change with the day, witnessing the blue colors of the domes and the intricate tile work morph in the golden light.
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Tour de Uzbekistan
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 22 July 2009
We took Uzbekistan more as a tour than a regular trekking destination. Our plan was to meet my mother in Tashkent, see the great three and wheeze out to Tajikistan. Having crossed the Turkmen-Uzbek border at the furthest point possible from Tashkent (Nukus) meant a 20 hour bus ride from hell. Or maybe through hell, [...]
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Tajikistan Visa
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 22 July 2009
We made our Tajik visa in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. the embassy (Abdullah Qahur AttaVI 61, 11AM-1PM Monday-Friday) is not too far from the Tashkent (train station) metro station. Tashkent is the name of the station. the guard reffered us to a small office near the embassy where Pamir Travel is situated. they charge 135$ per person [...]
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Sleeping
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 22 July 2009
Note: prices are not fixed in Uzbek hotels we went to. Haggle your way to the price you wish. I wrote down what we payed. Hotel Uzbekistan (Tashkent): 62$ single room (acted as triple), hot water only at night. Wi-fii at the loby. Elevators take long. Generally expensive. Cash-exchange in the loby. Just outside Amir-Timur [...]
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Observations from Uzbekistan
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 20 May 2009
So in the tradition of the recent Turkey post, here are some of my top observations from our time in Uzbekistan. It should be said loudly and clearly that these observations should be taken with quite a few grains of salt. I don’t speak Uzbek or Russian, which no doubt would have altered the experience [...]
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Mosques, mausoleums and medressas – the marvels of Uzbekistan
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 12 May 2009
The amazing Registan in Samarkand is a complex of medrasses (Islamic academy/seminary) and a large mosque When we flew into Tashkent from Istanbul a little bleary eyed at 4am we were already a tad hot under the collar. From what we had heard of the Uzbek immigration/customs process we thought it was going to be [...]
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Uzbekistan
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 22 October 2008
Nowhere captures the magic and mystery of the ancient silk road better than Uzbekistan.
