Archive for category: 'Uzbekistan'
About Bukhara in Uzbekistan
Bukhara is a small town with more than 140 monuments to visit. The magic of Bukhoro-i-Sharif (Noble Bukhara) seems to center itself around Lyabi-Hauz pool surrounded by restaurants and some fourteenth century Medressas of great magnificence decorated with mosaics and exotic patterns of great beauty. In this seventeenth century square you can appreciate the Medrassa [...]
About Tashkent in Uzbekistan
After much work trying to make myself understood at the border with Kazakhstan just to exchange money to take the bus to Tashkent, then a taxi driver exchanged me $ 10 dollars and took $0.50 commission that took me at least 30 minutes trying to bargain. Taxi drivers wanted to take me to Tashkent for [...]
About Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia and its capital is Tashkent with 2.3 million people. The country has 24 million inhabitants and most of them are Uzbeks who live with Russians, Tajiks and Kazakhs. Of the total population there are 10 million work force and 62% are rural population. Uzbekistan is five times larger than [...]
Passing the border to Uzbekistan coming from Kazakhstan
My border crossing from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan began at Ghisht Koprik. North port normally used by workers, traders and also by some smugglers to illegal trade with Kazakhstan. After coming from the Kazakh city of Shymkent, I got transportation to the border and it only took a few hours on a local minibus. The whole [...]
Zukhra Rustam Guest house, Home Stay in Bukhara Uzbekistan
This is a very peaceful place run by a very nice Uzbek family. Besides hotels, there are many family run guest houses in Bukhara. Private home stay accommodtion that offer a very interesting environment at a very good price. Besides offering the possibility of being at someone’s home and in contact with local people, you [...]
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