Bumpy road to Uzbekistan

It was a super early day with breakfast at 5 a.m. I’m not a fan of getting up in the dark but you do what you gotta do. We were up at 4:30 fed at five and on the road by 5:30, back to the horrendous roads. In fact, they were even worse than the previous day’s if that can be possible.

We had a long road ahead to reach the Uzbekistan border travelling for about 10 hours. We said goodbye to our Turkmenistan tour leader and met our new leader for the rest of our journey through the remaining four Stans on the Uzbekistan side. Crossing the borderUzbekistan was once again a bit of an ordeal, but not as taxing as the crossing we did between Azerbaidzhan and Georgia.

Our drive from the border was about one hour to our guest house. In Khiva, the city in which we’re spending two nights is an ancient Silk Road town with an old town within gorgeous walls. Our guest house is within the walls and is convenient to everything in the old town. We took a quick walk around and had a bite to eat, but were exhausted from our early rise and torturous drive and will wait till tomorrow to truly explore.Leer más