A first impression of our travel itinerary through Central Asia – that is Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – may be that we were wandering around the area aimlessly, criss-crossing back and forth, zig-zagging when we were finished criss-crossing and backtracking when we were done zig-zagging. Well, I blame Dave for all this – he was the mastermind and spiritual leader of our travel through the Stans and there definitely … Continue reading →
The mini-van we hired picked us up at our hotel in Khiva and whisked us 430 kilometres south to the ancient city of Bukhara. The journey started off across secondary roads passing through villages and modest agricultural fields but once we crossed the sprawling Amu Darya River the landscape turned to stark, dry and forbidding desert. Luckily our Russian driver kept the A/C on full blast and the six of … Continue reading →
Walking across a border into a new country is not a common thing – usually you do it by plane or car, maybe by ship or train. But just walking across a border is an unusual feat and yet here we were, the six of us, dragging our bags from a taxi who dropped us off in Kyrgyzstan, through the gates, stamped out of the country, more dragging of bags, … Continue reading →
