I was going to blog about these two towns, where we've spent the last week, but I can't get the pictures to upload. If you can imagine two very quaint mud-brick towns, full of blue tiled domes, minarets and medrasas, you've pretty much got it. Both city centres are beautiful. We've had a lovely time... Especially as Uzbek red wine is surprisingly quaffable when served chilled!
Then today we took a trip out to visit 5 forts in the desert. Again, the pictures will do it more justice than I can and we'll upload them when we find a better connection.
Tomorrow we're off to Turkmenistan. Widely renowned as the North Korea of Central Asia, we may be out of contact for a while. Or maybe not. To be honest, they might not even let us in... They've had the borders sealed due to the risk of swine flu and although they're officially now reopened, apparently they're still wary of Brits. (As an aside, can anyone tell us why the UK seems to have 100K cases and France only has 800? This is beaucoup puzzling us.)
Gemma
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Update from Baku... the land of all things modern (including speedy internet):
Photos of Bukara:
Then onwards to Khiva...
Then our day with the forts in the desert surrounding Khiva...
(Crikey, we've gotten tanned!)
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The reason the UK has more cases of swine flu is because the Brits will use any excuse to have a day off work. The Swine flu web site was getting 2.5K hits per second and crashed within 10 minutes of opening. The swine flu help line goes like this - "Have you got a temperature?" (Most towns have sold out of thermometers) "Yes - I got it to over 38deg by putting it in my coffee"; Ahh - do you have a cough?" "Yes but it went after my first fag"; Ahh - "how about a headache?" "Yes - I tried to cure it last night with a bottle of red wine but it's worse this morning"; "Ahh well - you've got swine flu - stay off work til you feel better"; "But my partner has those symptoms too - and our 7 children"; "Ahh well - that makes another 9 cases then - lets call it a dozen shall we?"
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