Recent Posts

Dushanbe is a very pleasant city. It felt like we could be somewhere in Europe.  The Plane trees, parks and roads all contributed to that feeling.  It was also very…

Breakfast was more toned down-selection compared to the excessive breakfasts that had been served up to us so far, but still had multiple small dishes.  Our driver for the next…

After breakfast it was into the old Russian car driven by a little old man for our journey to the border – a trip of less than an hour.    …

On arriving at Samarkand station we had pre-arranged a taxi from the BnB and soon we were wending our way through traffic and buses and big city paraphernalia.  No idea…

It was a relatively early start for a basically a day's drive through the desert from Khiva to Bukhara.  We had an early breakfast alongside a large German tour group. …

After our uneventful overnight journey, we arrived into Khiva on time.  The railway line was only opened last year and there is a new shiny station ...which we didn’t go…