Blogs from Khujand, Tajikistan, Asia - page 2

May 19, 2012 Hotel: Hotel Sugd; Khujand, Tajikistan; $75.50/dbl After the long day on the road yesterday it was nice to again have two nights in a place. There aren't a huge number of sights to see in Khujand itself. We started with an early breakfast at the hotel, it was decent enough with eggs, bread, cheese and watery dumplings. We caught a marshrutka (shared taxi) minibus to the Panjshanbe Bazaar (Thursday market) and the mosque/mausoleum of Sheikh Muslihiddin. The mosque was the first major example we had seen of Central Asian/Persian style with a tan brick minaret and curved domes. The area in front of the mosque was filled with pigeons and some children playing among them. The huge square between the mosque and the bazaar was filled with people this morning and very colorful. ... read more

Very bad hangover from the potent Tajik vodka I had with Afred's father after the Fan mountain hike, I could not refuse his offer now I am suffering the consequence, I arranged with Nematov for a share taxi to Khojand, it came swiftly only for us to drive to the taxi stand and wait there for a good 2 1/2 hours before we left, the driver parked it in the sun so I have to get out and find a shade, almost everyone is going to Dushanbe and I am getting frustrated, eventually 2 men got on, a young man and an older gentleman, we stopped at this old man's house to pick up his things, then we picked up another passenger, a woman, we could not find her house, she would not answer her phone ... read more