Outside walls of the Old City, magnificient at the end of the day!

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August 2nd 2016
Today, it's another share taxi, this time to Urgench. The ride is 3 hours...another cheap ride too. I'm dropped at the shared taxi station to Khiva. I'm the only one here and decide 20 minutes later that it's ok, I can pay the full 2.2usd fare for the 25km ride direct to Khiva. My hotel is in the old city center. No cars here....so I do the last few hundred meters on foot. I'm the only gu ... read more

Asia » Uzbekistan » Khiva

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

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