Post Tagged with: "Uzbekistan"

Food, People, Unity: Plov

Food, People, Unity: Plov

  Read this article in Spanish Samarkand, Uzbekistan, November , 2012 Feature article about the traditional food from Uzbekistan, Plov and the unifying culture that surrounds it. “Roberto, don’t eat the meat first, my friends are starting to look at you in a very weird way”, Jamshid whispered to me like […]

Read more ›
Cotton fields on the Silk Road

Cotton fields on the Silk Road

Country: Uzbekistan From Samarkand to Tashkent Days on the bike: 4 Kilometers cycled: 318.41 Average Kilometers per day: 79.60 Total Kilometers cycled till Tashkent: 7414.96 Total days travelled till Tashkent: 381 Lesson learned: Do not take the Uzbek registration bureaucracy too easy Most wonderful miracle: Meeting a collegue from high […]

Read more ›
Between buckling calves and donkey carts

Between buckling calves and donkey carts

Country: Uzbekistan From Bukhara to Samarkand Days on the bike:4 Kilometers cycled: 264,55 Average Kilometers per day: 66,14 Total Kilometers cycled till Samarkand: 7096,55 Total days travelled till Samarkand:373 Lesson learned: Melon is a better snack than junk food and cookies Laughed about: ourselves for not being able to ever […]

Read more ›
Thank you Esmeralda

Thank you Esmeralda

  Country: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan From Turkmenabat to Bukhara Days on the bicycle:3 Kilometers cycled: 152 Average Kilometers per day: 50,66 Total Kilometers cycled till Bukhara: 6832 Total days travelled till Bukhara:654 Lesson learned: Corny soap operas convert grumpy soldiers in laughing friends Most wonderful miracle: Seven nice old men […]

Read more ›