On the Old Silk Road, Bukhara & Samarkand
September 29th 2008 After an afternoon of waiting patiently for our passports at the Kazakh embassy we dashed across Tashkent and booked ourselves on the next train west, the night train to Bukhara. The bar was full of drunk russians, with the police keeping a tight watch on all passengers(particularly the man who fell asleep on the table!)
Bukhara is the an old spiritual city, once very important on the Old Silk
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