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Asia » Uzbekistan » Samarkand May 2nd 2007

We woke up bright and early to catch a shared taxi to Samarkand - our next stop on the trip. Uzbekistan has this super-convenient means of traveling between cities - shared taxis. All you do is turn up and the shared taxi stand, fight through the rabble of taxi drivers that swarm you because you're a tourist, and then negotiate a price per seat in a taxi going to your city of choice. The nice thing about this is you get to travel with other people in a confined car - which guarantees some level of interaction. We only had to wait about 20 minutes to get a full car, and during that time, we got to chat with lots of friendly taxi drivers, who seemed thrilled that we were married, and horrified that we ... read more
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Asia » Uzbekistan » Samarkand May 1st 2007

So far the smallest room we've ever stayed in, and the bathroom is flooding whenever you shower because the drainage does not work, oh dear, Disholdan hotel is small with a courtyard, but the family running it is nice and attends to all our needs. Hot as usual very hard to walk around in the schorching heat, our guided city tour was bearable in part due to the fact that the guide is hot, half Uzbek and half Russian Tatar, nice to look at for when you get bored of endless walking and sightseeing. Labilor is the restaurant we frequented in the city, serves plov, sashylik and ohter things but important is it's cheap. One night we have a wonder around to find MIR, a restaurant noted in LP, but they already done serving so ... read more
KYZYLKUM DESERT
KYZYLKUM DESERT
KYZYLKUM DESERT

Asia » Uzbekistan » Samarkand September 27th 1988

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Samarkand
Samarkand
Samarkand




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