Day 25 June 8th Samarkand
There are three must-see sights in Samarkand: Timur’s tomb, the Registan and the Shahizinda. I wrote in detail about these places in 2018 which can be seen earlier on the … Read more
Uzbekistan
Day 24 Bukhara to Samarkand
Since we went through Uzbekistan in 2018, it feels like the population has grown by 10% (with lots of small children running about) and the traffic by 1,000%. The road … Read more
Day 23 Bukhara (6th June)
We went to see the Great Ark after walking about a mile in entirely the wrong direction after Google Maps took us to the Great Ark Bukhara hotel. A man … Read more
Day 19 Khiva (2nd June)
I was taken by the hotel manager to a garage in the new town because I was worried about a clunking sound in the back of the vehicle, which seemed … Read more
Day 72, 13th June, Andizhan
The road from Altyaryk to Andizhan rolled through an attractive rural landscape with the road lined by long single-storey terraces of houses extending for the length of the village and … Read more
Day 71, 12th June, Altyaryk
Went to have breakfast at the caff in the morning. Seemed only fair when they had let us sleep on their property. The boiled chicken legs in some sort of … Read more
Day 70, 11th June, Tashkent
The next day we drove to Gur-e-Emir and went inside. It is one of the highlights of the trip thus far, covered almost entirely in gold leaf. The blocks of … Read more
Day 69, 10th June, Samarkand
We thought that, as a treat, we would spend an extra day relaxing in the excellent Zilol Baxta hotel which gives a 5-star service for only £35 a night. In … Read more
Days 67-68, 8th-9th June, Samarkand
Minds numbed from a day of unrelenting beauty. I knew Samarkand was beautiful, but wasn’t prepared for this. Samarkand is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. … Read more
Day 66, 7th June, Samarkand
Went back to the Ark in the morning but got a mild attack of the pewks, probably due to heat exhaustion and dehydration the previous day. So we set off … Read more