{"id":145,"date":"2019-06-30T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/j-ontheroad.at\/eastbound2019\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-05-24T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:53:03","slug":"uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/?p=145&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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25.06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No-driving day in Nukus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I visit\nthe art museum, that I got recommended the previous day. The painter,\narcheologist and collector Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky has collected\n„all“ contemporary art of the 20th century, which he could find in\nCentral Asia and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s\nworth seeing, I spend more than 2 hours in it and I’m sure was an exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking\naround outside is impossible , so I spend the afternoon writing the blog in the\nair-conditioned hostel room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nevening, I walk past this small „pub“ again, where I had a drink the\nevening before. Someone calls „How are you?“ I enter again and was\ngreeted euphorically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s\nabout the same time as yesterday. There are three of the four people from the\nprevious day in the room and a few more. They sit and stand around one of the\nsmall tables. In front of them are small vodka glasses and a bottle of vodka.\nThe small room has been heating up throughout the day. It’s like being in a\nsauna. The sweat runs down the people’s forehead. They are already visibly\ndrunk. Now and then other people come and get their evening ration of vodka or\nbeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the\nday before, I also take a bottle .. beer, not vodka. A few minutes later, the\nmissing fourth person from the previous day came in, the one who speaks some\nEnglish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He orders\na 1\/2 liter beer and about 2cl vodka in a plastic cup. Then he makes two sips\nof beer and fills up the missing amount with vodka. Gradually the cup of vodka\nmixes with the beer. It was a tough day, he explains to me. He was on his feet\nthe whole day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26.06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khiva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the\nway there, I went a bit off-road to visit a fort on a hill, which was visible\nfrom the road. Although J\u00fcrgen shoots some photos, there are none, because I\nforgot to put the memory card in the camera. The fort seems to be built of mud.\nOnly the walls are left and these will fall victim to wind and weather in the\nlong term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since\nit’s only 200km from Nukus to Khiva, I extend the distance and drive through\nvillages along the Uzbek \/ Turkmen border. It is much greener in this area,\nrivers and irrigation canals criss-cross the area and there is plenty of crops\nand many rice fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Khiva is\nan old oasis town on the ancient Silk Road. The old center, surrounded by a\nhigh wall, has a whole bunch of interesting sights. Whether the heat, I try at\nleast a minimum on doing sightseeing. The historic old town is more of an\nOpenAir museum. Within the city walls, there are not living many people\nanymore. Currently, there are hardly any tourists, only some locals trying to\nsell their souvenirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If there\nare many foreign tourists, it sometimes itches one or the other to try it with\na rip-off. I wanted to buy a bottle of fruit juice in one of the MiniMarkt. The\nyoung boy wants 17.000 SOM = about 1.70 EUR. I tell him: Isn’t that a bit much\n(the normal price is the about a third). He insists, that’s the price. I leave\nthe shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27.06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khiva to\nBuxoro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First\nproblems with the motorcycle. No wonder on these roads. The plastic part where\nthe front light is fixed, broke. Just 2mm thin plastic. Small cause, big\neffect. I have to solve this at least temporarily. In the hostel I want to take\noff the front part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You know,\nI am very happy with my motorcycle. Seldom have problems. But those guys, who\ndesigned the parts, belong to prison. So many different screws. I already have\na toolbox with me, but I do not have the one hex-wrench, that I need take off\nthe cockpit. Tomorrow, one of the people here at the hostel will bring me what\nI need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girl\nhere in the Dervish Hostel speaks excellent English, so I have the opportunity\nto finally ask a few questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s off\nseason at the moment. On the one hand, that is good, because you can stay\novernight for 8 to 10 EUR, breakfast included, and you have to share a room\nonly with 1 or 2 other people. On the other hand, there is seldom a person to\ntalk to and to change news and experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to\nsay, often you are more a guest and less a tourist. In majority the\naccommodations are excellent, often you get offered tea and fruits several\ntimes a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28.06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another\nday in Buxoro. The distances are big and so I am moving much faster than\nplanned. Therefor I stay one or another day and relax. It’s not a race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Compared\nto Kihva, the historic buildings in Buxoro are more spread. I like that more,\nbecause when walking around you get a bit of an impression of the daily life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As there\nis no better solution possible at the moment, I try to fix the problem with the\nheadlight with duct tape temporary. I’m curious how long that will last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nmentioned on another trip, that I am not very good with trading. I walk through\na market and want to buy a small picture. I can’t buy souvenirs that break\neasily. My counterpart does all the work for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wants\n80,000 SUM, but for 200,000 I can get three pictures. But I only want one. Well\n100,000 and you get two. Then he gives me a third for free. I think he just\nfelt sorry for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the evening I sit down in a restaurant to eat. A young man sits down unasked. He starts to talk to me. Always annoying me with the same phrases and words. At some point he should understand that I do not understand anything. When the waiter brings the food, I tell him that he should leave now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29.06 \/\n30.06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samarkand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.. Is probably the tourist center in Uzbekistan. I stay one day and spend my last Uzbek money and buy pistachios at a horrendous price at the local market. I just should not allow anybody to persuade me to buy something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is only three different brands of cars in Uzbekistan. Most seen cars is Chevrolet, mostly the smallest ones. Then Lada and there are driving around a few Daewoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos 25.06 No-driving day in Nukus. I visit the art museum, that I got recommended the previous day. The painter, archeologist and collector Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky has collected „all“ contemporary art of the 20th century, which he could find in Central Asia and Russia. It’s worth seeing, I spend more than 2 hours in it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/eastbound2019\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}