After a good sleep and a very long shower we were ready to tackle whatever awaited us in Tashkent but we were pleasantly surprised to find ourselves in a beautiful, green, clean and friendly city with nothing to do but enjoy the sunshine.
We had a very relaxing time walking around the dusty lanes and the lush parks and looking at the many beautiful medressas (which all started to look the same!!).
We met some lovely locals and had a beer with some other travellers who were doing almost the same thing as us in the opposite direction (moving from Australia to the UK and taking the scenic route to get there!).
Next we headed to Samarkand – another beautiful, clean and friendly city. We visited the Registan and some amazing old mausoleums with incredible blue tiling.
Then it was on to Bukhara, not quite as green but still very beautiful and interesting – although the Old Town square resembled a bomb site with all the restoration work going on.
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