As I traveled in Uzbekistan, everyone I met, locals and tourists who had been there, asked if I was going to Khiva. Located close to the Turkmenistan border, Khiva is often overlooked by tourists as it is slightly offbeat, but that would be a mistake. I took a road trip from Bukhara to Khiva, passing by endless dessert. This dessert (on both sides of Khiva) makes Khiva very hot (50 degree plus) and very cold (minus 20), but I was lucky to get very good weather. Khiva is like an open air museum, a really small old city but with a bunch of interesting places to see and probably the most colourful Minaret of them all. The inside of the old city is called Ichan Kala, it's only 26 Hectares and is Uzbekistan's first World Heritage
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