One of the best day trip adventures that you can include in your trip to Khiva would be a quick day trip to the Khorezm Fortresses in Karakalpakstan. Technically you are still in Uzbekistan but you would be travelling to the Republic of Karakalpakstan which is an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan having its flag.
Our trip to Uzbekistan started from Tashkent and our next stop was Khiva. To travel there we opted for the slow night train as that was the logical choice. We saved on a night at a hotel and also saved some on the superfast trains. The slow train took us directly to Khiva, whereas most…
Growing up in the 80’s and 90s in Kolkata had its charm. Relatives and friends from other parts of the country would come to Kolkata for a vacation and one thing that they would always try was the Metro subway trains and the Trams. It was much later that Metro started catching up in other…
Visiting a zoo when traveling across Uzbekistan was never an option in the first place. It’s just by chance that Tashkent Zoo was on the way while I was going towards another tourist spot, so I decided to give this place a look. Russia is famous for its bears, and I was very sure this…
Minor Mosque is one of the newest attractions in Tashkent. The word “Minor” is pronounced by the locals as “Mee-noor” so do not do a literal English translation of the word “Minor” into something small. Minor is the neighborhood where this mosque was constructed. I was apprehensive about visiting this mosque as it looked different…
My fascination for WWII has taken me around the globe, and when I was touring Tashkent in Uzbekistan, I had heard about the Japanese and German Cemetery In Tashkent, a cemetery which had graves of Japanese and German prisoners of war(POW). Mind it we were in a country that was once part of the USSR…
