by thadmin | Aug 12, 2025 | Khiva, Travel, Uzbekistan
Travel day from Bukhara to Khiva by car today. Bad road last 100kms, little AC, nice driver. But I have a full-blown head cold now, robbing me of energy and causing my head to balloon and nose to run continuously. Will try to post tomorrow.
by thadmin | Aug 10, 2025 | Bukhara, Travel, Uzbekistan
Got up at 5am this morning and wandered back to a few places I’d been yesterday.
by thadmin | Aug 10, 2025 | Bukhara, Travel, Uzbekistan
45C It’s difficult to imagine the quality of this kind of heat from a remove. I know I’ve gone on and on about how hot it is here, but it strikes me down each and every time I step out of an air-conditioned hotel room, restaurant, museum… When it is 6C hotter...
by thadmin | Aug 9, 2025 | Bukhara, Travel, Uzbekistan
Train day. We departed Samarkand midday, taking a ‘fast train’. While it looked like a bullet train (scoop nose at the Engine), it travelled at more or less usual train speeds I think. The view was heavy with monotony. Sepia sand and scrub as far as the eye could see....
by thadmin | Aug 8, 2025 | Samarkand, Travel, Uzbekistan
Our second ‘free’ day in Samarkand. We leave tomorrow morning for Bukhara, and I am ready to be on the road again. Three full days in Samarkand is perhaps one day too many. But that depends, of course, on one’s point of view and how one travels. Slow travel is good,...
