The drive to Bukhara was a strand one. Half of it was on pristine, German engineered motorway ... The other half was not. We had expected the drive to be 6 hours and it turned out to be about 8. This meant else arrived a little later than anticipated, but still with plenty of time to find one of the many hotels to stay in. We went straight for a cheap place that had I had been told about called "Mubinjon's". Knocking on the door, it didn't look too hopeful and when an old man answered the door yawning and explaining that the hotel was now closed. Sorry for waking you up Mubinjon. I then (a bit embarrassingly) asked a man standing on his porch for the directions to our second choice hotel, but when the
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