Category Archives: photos

The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, or rather, where the Aral Sea used to be. A rather poignant place made even more depressing by the fact it’s here where we found out that Trump had won the Presidency. 🙁 The photos show the remnants of the fishing fleet at Moynak. Once located at the sea shore, […]

Another day and another stop on our tourism-optimised drive through Uzbekistan. Today we are in Khiva – a city in possesion of an ancient mud-walled citadel stuffed to the brim with madressas, mosques and minarets. It’s all very interesting, but at the same time a little bit weird. Clare sums it up in this blog post.

Bukhara, the second stop on our uber-tourist tour of Uzbekistan. There are literally more madresses and mosques here than you can shake a stick at. It’s took all the resolve I could muster to remain focussed over the day. Plus a lot of beer stops.

Our time in Uzbekistan is going to be a bit of a whistle-stop tour as we have an immovable date at the Russian border on November 16th. So, for a change, we’re going to behave like proper tourists and only stop off at the 3 or 4 places you’re meant to stop at when in […]