The romance of trains was prominent in my childhood, and the notion of a private sleeping car has long appealed to me. So, I finagled an overnight train ride from Bukhara to Tashkent into our trip. We boarded at 11pm and reached Tashkent shortly before 7am. Perhaps a longer trip would have been better, inContinue reading “Overnight Train and the Final Day in Tashkent -UZ13”
Monthly Archives: November 2025
Nuratau Mountains — UZ12
Ostensibly a three day horse ride from village-to-village homestays, this ended up being so much more than that. We stopped mid-way on the drive from Bukhara to Asraf to scramble around to see some roadside petroglyphs. Approximately 4,000 years old! Ride One A 6.7 mile loop from Aslon’s Homestay in the tiny village of Asraf,Continue reading “Nuratau Mountains — UZ12”
Quillpig 