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Traveling in Uzbekistan in 2004 (Samarkand. Shakhrisabz. Departiry from Tashkent)
Summing up our travels, would like to give useful advice.
Accommodation better in the private hotels. The public is much cheaper, but no comfort, make sure that something will be broken or water will not be any. Municipal hotel from $ 15 a day and $ 30 from to private hotels.
Transportation is very cheap indeed, 300 soums bus, buses even cheaper. Taxis from 4000 soums for the city of Tashkent, but we contrive to agree and 2000. In Samarkand, we generally used as private transport City, with us taking two for 300 soums. In Samarkand parnishka came to us, probably moscower, asked to continue as an observatory of Ulugbek and is not expensive if it was asked to taxi 9000 soums. I told him about these prices, he was struck. We see it constantly inflate. At long distance, too, better take the car, the main price that you know not deceived, Samarkand, Tashkent cost us U.S. $ 15 per person. Bukhara - Khiva $ 20 per person.
With discrimination at the entrance tickets. Yes for foreigners and citizens of Russia are much more expensive than local. We are taking advantage of tips from the site of "100 roads" were told that we are from Tashkent. No problem everywhere adult tickets bought for 1000 soums, sometimes 100 per child for the child and did not take. The truth in Tashkent in the museum Timur take up told us that we do not like to dress in local, "we do not dress", but tickets are still sold as local.
And because I am so ready, head broke, what should go not to come from the common masses, but useless in all three cities to dress differently. In Tashkent mostly in jeans. In Samarkand any length skirts and dresses, specially drawn attention, in jeans none of the women was not met, may be because in the old city lived in Bukhara are both. But mostly dark color. Neither of colour, either in style in the clothes we do not fit. But we have no one requested a passport, although probably, and suspected that we are not local.
With nutrition, probably from the story was already clear that all the cheap, most expensive dinner for two cost us in Bukhara in the 6 dollars. And so, on average, 4. All praise Samarkand cakes, not bad, but personally I had to taste horezmian. Bread all different, but all delicious, after a very long time we used to us. Tried to buy something not on the market. Cooking mainly meat, fat. But if there is a possibility, prepare, what you ask.
Souvenirs, their lot in Bukhara and Samarkand, in Samarkand cheaper when we first went to a store in Bukhara we have seen in his forehead was written that we simpletons, we charge an exorbitant price such prices, intuitively, I abstained from the "old jewellery", and donated about it does. I am well remembered council that we should bargain, but this must still learn and have it in blood.
We accidentally became acquainted with the boy in a madrassa in Bukhara, he painted calabash traded, with their signs himself, and he will enlighten us about the price we bought it for a few souvenirs, to 30 rubles each, while before that much worse, we suggested for 100 rubles. And even as we later learned, they buy up to 10 cents. Ivan I obtain by request gidzhak (musical instrument). How then turned the assembly factory for 40 dollars. But what do we beat lumps on their own experience.
But in Khiva for joke rams bought for $ 20 per hat, another man saw that we bought a hat, I would say that you sold for 12, but his 12 and a cost of $ 20 was really cool hat, a very delicate soft beautiful Fleece. We then all its guests with remeasure delighted. And about jewelry, I have conversations with one master. He will enlighten me, now that almost all modern or prefabricated. For example the old kettle, a new cap to him, and jewellery, old, only a few details, I proposed to sell a silver ring with cornelian for 100 dollars. I asked him, and why $ 100, and he told me frankly that this is the first price which came to him in the head. Souvenir we bought a lot, but of all clutter that we brought, has proved useful only spectacle case, I use it to travel as ksivnik on the neck, hand embroidery, looks very stylish and it was worth only 3 dollars. And everything else fails, lost, to give away to.
The currency course is beneficial dollar in Tashkent and Bukhara, Khiva us in his understated.
Of the clothes took only a fallback shoes, summer, flying themselves in leftover sweaters and even had spared. Weather was warm everywhere, in Hive windy and cold than in Bukhara.
A little more talk and inquired among the local population that you're interested, for example, we already leaving from Samarkand learned about the source and the tomb of a holy prophet David, the Metropolitan seemingly came from Russia covered seat.
Chauvinism is not felt in Ukraine and his more.
My husband was from the outset, to put it mildly, not delighted by our choice of holidays. But when he met us at the airport happy and satisfied, vying with each other interrupt each other's stories, then confessed that regretted that not traveled with us.
Uzbekistan Travel Tips Part 1 (Arrival in Tashkent. Urgench. Khiva)
Uzbekistan Travel Tips Part 2 (Khiva. Road to Bukhara. Bukhara)
Uzbekistan Travel Tips Part 3 (Road to Samarkand. Samarkand)
Uzbekistan Travel Tips Part 4 (Samarkand. Shakhrisabz. Departiry from Tashkent)
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