Tashkent

Seperated from Kevin Bacon in four degrees, but still no Chinese visa

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May 25th 2010
What do you talk about with your travelling companion when you are both waiting for various visa's and stuck in Tashkent? Well in my case our conversation somehow led to something I had heard once from some backpacker on another trip of mine. He told me that there was this theory that everybody in the world was seperated from Kevin Bacon within six degrees. Ricky actually had heard of this theory ... read more

Asia » Uzbekistan » Samarkand

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Russia conquered Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic set up in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain... ... read more