The entry to Uzbekistan is slightly different, namely correct. We fill out a customs declaration twice, one copy for us, one for the Authority. We should note that you can not find more money with us, not at exit, specify as we have, all men look interested in the car and we will be sent with good wishes. probably come here to this border post not many tourists.
come after trials and tribulations after we Xhiwa. On the way we cross on an adventurous
pontoon bridge over the Amurdaja.
In Xhiwa we find directly from the city \u200b\u200bwall, a small hotel, B & B Lai'la. The rooms are fully booked, but we found a nice spot in the yard. We could also sleep under a canopy in the yard, but they go into the motorhome.
After dinner we put to rest.
There are also back beer, iced
thursday, June 3, 2010
Welcome to 1001!!
Today we move into our hotel room. We would have stayed even with the same payment in the motor home, but that leaves the hospitality, even the paid not to.
Our Blue Salon
Am Vormittag machen wir unseren ersten Rundgang durch die Altstadt. Ein Stadttor liegt direkt gegenüber des B&B, in dem wir wohnen.
Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2010
Friday 04. June 2010
Tuesday 08 June 2010
The old city of Bukhara is really huge and we have not even made it to the Ark of the fortress, as we meet the Swiss again , which we have already met once in Iran. They had a different route through Turkmenistan and have not been through Xhiva. The four have been intensified by the grandmother, who for weeks on vacation in Uzbekistan, and thereby take the children and grandchildren again. They want four again Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia to China and India, Pakistan, Iran Home.
Heute ist Ruhetag. Wir schlafen aus und genießen dann auf der Terrasse der Pension ein Frühstück in drei Gängen. Dann beginnen wir mit großer Unterstützung unseres Vermieters unser Auto zu insurance. That will then throughout the day. First comes a young man who photographed the car and copy all documents can be. Then we go only once in the Old Town. This is really beautiful. The various palaces, madrasahs, minarets and others, we look at but tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, as today is every now and then want to ask about the insurance. We are looking for an Internet Cafe, because it really is time we look up to retrieve our emails. We also need to update our blog once again, as we learned at the last telephone conversation with Helga, which was already in demand by phone with her, if everything is ok with us, because we are have written a long time. This went on with the emails still but for the blog was the link, unfortunately the browser version is too slow and too old, so only a brief entry as a possible sign of life was. Tomorrow we will try again in a hotel.
We had lunch at a small restaurant, and even though Matt had a thick stack of money wrapped up, it was not enough to completely pay for, so that he once had to return to the board.
came the afternoon and again the man from the insurance. He brought a Russian in written form thick with the details of our car, all the photos and a receipt about 75 400 symbols. Then Matt went with our landlord still in the insurance office. Her he paid the premium of 34,000 Sym. The first sum was for the report. We were the first to have such insurance.
evening before dinner we went again to the old town. Many, especially children wanted to be photographed either alone or with one of us. Back at the board was interested in another guest en much for our motorhome. He had to explain many things.
Tonight, the misery began, first with abdominal pain, but went back. Then, the morning came to nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and fever. I declined the breakfast with eggs, sausages and chips, but had to eat a little rice, which I had cooked the junior boss extra. But it was not much better. We then attend to the city. Strikes us at a hotel a promotional stand, the offers wireless Internet access. This is a little faster and it's free if you consume something. So we order, a Coke for me and Matt finally back for coffee. The Tea is slow on him.
The Internet connection is slow but plenty, I'm not very good and we did not get very far. By late afternoon we once again a trip into the city. The day before, some kids wanted to be photographed by us, some from just fun and joy, then appears on the display of the camera. Some also asked for candy or pens, but we had nothing to it and so it went without. The photo of two young girls who embraced intimately touched for taking us so that we have printed it twice and wanted to bring the girls. Three boys we had promised for today ballpoint pen.
the way to the house of the girl we found the same, the children were not there, but two adults who were already on the previous day here in front of the house were there. We showed them the photo and they called one of the little girl. She was not quite so briskly as before, as they gain by their friend, but had kept them as the two images, their eyes were shining and the adults were very happy. In the market we were looking for then sold to a state of the detergent, but have not find it. The dirty laundry is piling up already in the washing machine. Now, however, it was again time to go back to the inn, my legs were already soft. While I was in bed again, Matt bought the first washing and then went to dinner alone - shared is a problem halved?
After dinner, Matt was with the Russian manual of a blood glucose meter to the top. The senior partner of the house was diabetic and Matt should explain anything to the device. To me it just went back to some extent, so I took down. But the device was not the problem. The man will probably inject insulin and that I should tell them he could take what antidiabetics. In the morning the woman had told me yet that she was a doctor, but to infections. I said then that can be given without a doctor not a drug, but if they know what they need, I may perhaps, if we are back home, get some. In Uzbekistan, it is probably so that you go to the sister says what you want and then get.
night we heard from our neighboring room, which we did not know that it was re-let after a young family is gone, bad noise. Previously a rumble was heard from the stairs. In the bathroom next door, someone really had to throw up the soul from the body. It sounded terrible.
Saturday 05 June 2010
We had slept the rest of the night well, although there was every now and again heard a groan and a cough from next door.
morning at breakfast we were told about the background. The new neighbor, an Italian, came at night by taxi from Nukus and vomit once a terrace full. After he had been patched up here, they brought him up into the room. In the morning we then built from the room door, because the previous tenant had taken the key and the door was not sealed. It had a new lock to be installed.
We then went back to the city. Today, on Saturday, was even busier than usual, but we went to some museums. The visit of most museums is possible with the ticket that you buy when you enter the city through the west gate. Most of the museums are, however, at least for our taste, not particularly interesting. But as the old Friday Mosque is beautiful. Inside are numerous wooden pillars, each with different Schnitzornamenten on different shapes and different high pedestals. Ceiling panels are made of wood are also different. It is a pleasant atmosphere, just beautiful.
We sit there and nearly three hours in "our Restaurant, finally bring the blog back on track and enjoy the relative calm. In the garden of the restaurant are covered with carpets and platforms covered with fabric. In the middle of a low table and then one kneels, crouches, or is there just long legs from under the table. There is a slight breeze, it's just pleasant. Then an old woman joined us. They actually sell pine nuts, but this makes lunch. She brings a whole pita bread and a tomato, ordered a pot of tea and began to guzzle. You always talks to us again, but also asks all to Uzbek. Matthias has ordered a second lunch, because he first due to a misunderstanding only a small skewer received. Now he has again ordered two Somas (meat pies) and offers the woman of one of them. But they just want their tomatoes with their juice to their bread and once again last. Finally, we still pay her her first and 2 Pot of tea and finally go on again.
Then we see people grow into a tall minaret. We want to know if that would go well tonight. For the answer we get, it was closed this evening because of the Uzbek President would, but if we paid now, 3000 Sym per person, we could enter for free tomorrow. We can not imagine that if the President is, after all, was committed to the 1999 assassination attempt, would be so little security forces and so many tourists in the city.
Back at the inn, we then ask whether this is true with the President. All lies. When the President 3 years ago, was once in Shiva, had all the tourists stay at the hotel. As the security forces by the battlements of the old city wall saw that the tourists were in this hotel on the balcony, they called immediately and the people had disappeared inside.
the afternoon we stroll through the old town again, there's always something new. Today, especially viele russische Gruppen unterwegs, davon viele Frauen und Männer, bei denen sämtliche Zähne mit Gold überkront sind. Es sieht schön tagsüber nicht besonders schön aus aber für nachts stelle ich mir das gespenstisch vor.
Wir suchen uns dann noch die Post. Der Briefkasten davor ist nicht auf Anhieb als solcher zu erkennen, weigert er sich doch auch, sich richtig öffnen zu lassen. In Gebäude selbst ist ein Schalter geöffnet, es werden hier aber nur Telefongespräche und Internet bzw. Fax vermittelt. Mit Hilfe eines Einheimischen befördern wir unsere Ansichtskarten letztendlich in den Kasten und vertrauen auf die usbekische Post.
fall in the New Town itself to a larger number of tourist buses, standing in front of hotels that are in the style of the buildings of the historic old town built, with decorative tiles decorated minaret towers as
falls later forward to a truly exotic vehicle, we go further and find a Frenchman with a peculiarly packed motorcycle. He is still looking for a room, we recommend our pension La'li and other people, confirm this are that it really would be good for me because there are motorcycle was also well off. Later he comes by foot, can show a room, check in and tells Once his story very extensively. Later, it will already applied the dinner, he wants only 5 minutes away quickly and get his motorcycle. It is more than an hour. We have spun our scenario are in for Dismounted luggage bags and wheels, as he turns up again, two young Frenchmen in tow. He has verquatscht itself.
Sunday 06 June 2010
Last day of rest before another long step on us to it: that to Bukhara. This morning we spoke to the wife of the boss and says that she and her husband go to Germany to Arbeiten gehen möchten. Aber das ist ja fast aussichtslos. Wir hinterlassen jedenfalls unsere Email-Adressen, so können wir in Kontakt bleiben. Beim Abendesse schwatzen wir wieder sehr angeregt und auch unterhaltend mit dem Franzosen. Auch mit ihm werden wir in Kontakt bleiben.
Montag, 07. Juni 2010
Heute wird es Zeit, weiterzufahren. Es wird richtig großer Bahnhof. Alle, einschließlich die Oma sind zur Verabschiedung da. Nur der allerjüngste Spross der Familie zieht es vor im Auto zu warten, weil es wohl anschließend mit den Großeltern auf Tour geht.
Unser French motorcycle friend is waiting already stretched to the camera - and will be disappointed. We had told him of maneuvering that was necessary in order to close the gate behind our car again. Now we go to a swing from the property.
eagerly we listened as children to stories from 1001. With the small muck we walked through the desert from one city to another. We never would have thought these places, which meant for us, the Orient, to see once. Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union it was still impossible to drive once to Bukhara or Samarkand, and here it is, it goes on a long stretch to Bukhara.
take the first part of the way we do in the great Amur-Darya River. He and the river Syrdaja make it a long time not to feed the Aral Sea. Too much water is taken for example to irrigate the cotton fields. Although it has begun a rethink, but if that will save the lake, is very questionable. There are theories that play other aspects of the desiccation of the lake a role.
Xhiva After we left, the oasis in desert landscape is fast, which is still crossed by the River. We cross a Combined car and railway bridge.
The access roads are heavily guarded by police station, imagine the consequences if a vehicle travels on the bridge while a train comes.
The access roads are heavily guarded by police station, imagine the consequences if a vehicle travels on the bridge while a train comes.
The lifeline of Amur-Darya is used in many ways. Time and again we pass pumping stations that pumped water from the river into channels. But especially under the prevailing high temperatures will also like to swim in a river.
The road is occasionally very bumpy. You build and eager, but at lunchtime to rest the work and road construction workers wait in the shade. What will it be only in high summer.
then dive again on the first sheep and goat herds, herdsmen families settle in yurts off the road.
Then we reached Bukhara. It is a bit different than I had imagined since childhood. First we look for accommodation. As we discover Rotel Tours. They stand in the parking lot outside a hotel. We could remain standing, even very cheap, there are shower and toilet - not a bit of shade. We are looking for a hotel, "Nassredin Navruz" it would be very nice and also inexpensive have been, but the car we had in a very narrow but still must meet brisk traffic road. So gehen wir ins Hotel „Fatima“, auch direkt am Labi Hauz gelegen. Hier können wir das Auto auf einem Vorplatz abstellen.
Dann wird es auch schon dunkel. Wir gehen zum Labi Hauz etwas essen.
Hier ist wirklich etwas los. Buchara ist ganz anders als Xhiwa. In Xhiwy war die Altstadt ein Komplex, der Abends verlassen war. In Buchara lebt man in der Altstadt. In den Moscheen, Medresen und Khanen sind Teppich- und Souvenirläden. Sie sind offen und ohne Eintritt zugänglich. Am Labi Haus brummt abends der Bär. Ein Alleinunterhalter wechselt zwischen Discomusik, und Gesangsdarbietung, d.h. es singt live Instrumental to canned music, a one-man karaoke event.
Hier ist wirklich etwas los. Buchara ist ganz anders als Xhiwa. In Xhiwy war die Altstadt ein Komplex, der Abends verlassen war. In Buchara lebt man in der Altstadt. In den Moscheen, Medresen und Khanen sind Teppich- und Souvenirläden. Sie sind offen und ohne Eintritt zugänglich. Am Labi Haus brummt abends der Bär. Ein Alleinunterhalter wechselt zwischen Discomusik, und Gesangsdarbietung, d.h. es singt live Instrumental to canned music, a one-man karaoke event.
Many locals and tourists sit at the tables around the pool and enjoy the atmosphere.
We will then also on the terrace outside our room. Here we have but very poor reception and slow Internet. We skype quick trip home and try to check the emails. Then there is our neighbor and asked in English whether we have Internet. We find out very quickly that their native language is German. She is from Austria and then sends the netbook from a quick email.
We are pretty much the last to breakfast. It really is very abundant: bread, butter, cheese, feta cheese, pancakes, yogurt, jam - and then the fried egg, sausage and french fries. For tomorrow we will only reduce, bread, pancakes, jam, butter, cheese and yoghurt range completely. We start our first excursion. There are actually housed in every old building shops and restaurants and teahouses. We then change money, 100 € à 240 000 Sym. We had first feared, in Bukhara, not so cheap to replace, but thriving black market. We did not even haggle, perhaps would have been possible, but that would be really unfair to the people here against. The business is really hard, the competition is tough. We catch the French tour group that we have seen in Xhiva and their coach told us yesterday overhauled several times on the road to Bukhara, so that we could pass him again, when the tourists were just left to take pictures.
The old city of Bukhara is really huge and we have not even made it to the Ark of the fortress, as we meet the Swiss again , which we have already met once in Iran. They had a different route through Turkmenistan and have not been through Xhiva. The four have been intensified by the grandmother, who for weeks on vacation in Uzbekistan, and thereby take the children and grandchildren again. They want four again Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia to China and India, Pakistan, Iran Home.
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