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A word about transportation in central Asia. One of the most convenient and inexpensive ways to travel between cities is by shared taxi. Just head to one of the spots where taxi drivers congregate, explain where you want to go, wait for a few more passengers to fill up the car, and off you go. Except that the taxi you got on may not actually go all the way to where you want to go. Instead, the driver will drive a certain part of the way, negotiate with another driver, gesture to you to get out and move to another car and off you go again. This might be repeated two or three times before you arrive at your final destination. You only pay the first driver - then you become a commodity, traded among taxi drivers, each presumably trying to slice off as possible much from the tourist premium you paid in the first place.
Uzbekistan is beautiful. Tall imposing mosques and madrassas, covered in intricate azure and green mosaics, topped with turqoise domes that glisten in the sunlight. These are the images of the Silk Road that I had in mind before I set off, and they are
more even more overwhelming in real life than they are on pictures.
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Emily
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Wow. x