Uzbekistan was a beautiful country and we had a break from camping here, staying in hotels.
We first visited the town of Khiva which was very cool and authentic in terms of the old town being surrounded by the protective walls. Old mosques, minarets and madras's.
The money here though is ridiculous. We exchanged 50 US Dollars and literally got a wad of cash back. One night a group of us had dinner together and it came to 200 000 Uzbek sum. The table was covered in piles of money. Ridiculous! Pictures below = Terry with his wad on his head and the bill being worked out.
We then visited the town of Bukhara a small town it was nice but so so so hot that it was difficult to be motivated to explore. It somewhere in the 40’s and the heat was so draining.
We then visited Samarkand which has many highly decorated mosques, madras’ and minarets.The pictures really give you a better idea of what I mean. Glen was not well here so spent the first day here sleeping in our air conditioned hotel room. The hotel also had a pool which we were all very pleased about.
We also visited the capital Tashkent, but is mainly a business city and not a whole lot of touristy things to do. We were only here for one night and we went for a nice steak dinner here before making our way to Kazakhstan.
Kieran
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So these are the places I was meant to vist a few years ago but never got the chance do to slow visas and expensive flights! Looks like it is worth a visit at some point still - though maybe not when it's so hot!
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