Uzbekistan

Here we are, Uzbekistan... From what we know, there are mainly four places to see there, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, and the Aral sea (erm, what s left actually).

We spend our first two days in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan. Nothing much to say about the city... I didn t even take pictures of the town except a few ones at the big bazaar.

The town s not that beautiful and doesn t have this little charm Bishkek has (capital of Kyryzstan...for the lads who don t memorize my blog). Buildings in a russian style are planted here and there and most of the buildings, houses, shops, look just abandonned to the dust.
One pretty odd thing I have to say is the metro of the city. Looks like a little caprice form the president to install this mean of transport when the city has some major imporvement to do for its traffic organization....few more buses would have been welcome instead of taking a taxi (or random car which suddently becomes a taxi) for each place you want to go. Anyway, this metro, just fallen from the sky, makes an interesting contrast with the rest of the city, huge empty echoing alleys, "beautiful" excentric decorations, and a 100% chance to have passport control from the police.

Not much to see and no reasons to stay there any longer except for my Turkmen visa application...

As soon as the application is done, we re taking a bus to Samarkand, famous historic Uzbekistan city, and first town of our little trip around the country.