Uzbekistan travel stories

Uzbekistan 2000 - Samarkand

Friday, Sept 8 I started my sightseeing early the next morning: first I stopped at the bazaar to take some more pictures. The best one was of a line of women selling handmade brooms. In the bac...

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Uzbekistan 2000 - Bukhara

Monday, September 4 Shortly after arriving in Bukhara I went looking for the Char Minar. I had seen pictures of this building in my travel guide and it seemed like a good place to start my sigh...

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Uzbekistan 2000 - The Road to Tim

Thursday, September 7 Laura wanted to stop in Tim on the way to Samarkand and that created a couple of problems. First, Tim wasn't exactly on the way to Samarkand and the side trip would ad...

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Uzbekistan 2000 - Tashkent

Sunday, September 3 The overnight flight from Moscow left me feeling dopey. At the Tashkent airport I saw people filling out a form, but I was in a hurry and got in the customs line without one...

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Uzbekistan 2000 - First stop: Moscow

Friday, September 1 There is one image of Moscow that sticks in my mind - St. Basil's. It's that cathedral on Red Square with the delightfully screwy onion-shaped domes - I'm sure y...

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