After a bit too much partying the previous night at Sabit’s house (our taxi driver form Kungrad to Moynaq), we get to the train station two minutes before my train takes off, talk about cutting it close. I have a…
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The Aral Sea, Moynaq fishing village and the Trip to the Sea
While en-route to Moynaq, we stop to change cars at Kungrad and decide to organise a car to the Aral Sea. If we go through a tour agency, the car will cost $600USD, our plan, in true Russian style, is…
Art in the Uzbek backwaters, traveling in Karakalpakstan!
On the way from Khiva to Moynaq, we stop by Nukus, a middle of nowhere type city with nothing of real interest, except… … the Stravinsky Art Museum, the third largest Art Gallery in the former USSR (after the Hermitage…
Khiva
Since the girls are on a limited time schedule, they leave for Khiva (Хива pronounced Hiva) a day earlier than I do. I share a car to Khiva with an Italian guy Gianluca who’s planning to travel Iraq, Afghanistan and…
Bukhara
Walking around Bukhara (бухара pronounced Buhara), I stumble upon the Photo Studio of Shavkat Boltaev a photographer with some amazing works. I chat with the man for a couple of hours and leave inspired to take more photos. If you…
Hi friend, my name is Ivan, at 21, I started traveling the world, it's now been almost four years and fifty countries, and I'm still going strong. Read more
