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Asia » Tajikistan » Penjikent July 29th 2010

From the Acted homestay we took a cab to the taxi stand across some cement factory, about 15 minutes from where we were staying, the cab ride was 15 somonis, lots of traffic police as usual, in almost every corner, and they are like sharks, stopping cars at every opportunity we saw yesterday how they blatantly accept bribes in the street, it's ridiculous how often vehicles here gets stopped by these sharks. We got to the taxi stand and immediately we got mobbed by the taxi drivers, the doors of the taxi flung open and our arms got yanked out of the taxi beckoning us to come with them, i left the negotiations to Tapio, everyone wants our business, we wanted to go with the car that goes right away, with people already in them so ... read more
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