Read: Silk road diaries - O'zbekistan - Part 1 As the explanation on why to visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan fell on deaf ears, it was time to give another explanation. This was convincing enough. We are traveling to Kazakhstan in $1 and adding two more countries to our list of countries visited 🙂 The main … Continue reading Silk road diaries – O’zbekistan – Part 2
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The Hospitable Steppe – Uzbekistan
Tashkent: Our second stop on the circuit was Tashkent. All I knew about the city, was that India’s Late PM L B Shastri passed away there while on an official visit under mysterious circumstances. Bukhara and Samarkand were vaguely familiar as ancient towns on the Silk Route. We landed in Tashkent in the afternoon and … Continue reading The Hospitable Steppe – Uzbekistan
The Hospitable Steppe – Kazakhstan
The fact that I am geographically challenged is well known within my family and friend circle as well as few of you who follow our blog. Even a year-long course in geo-politics and international relations has not helped me grasp how the world is shaped. I have even presented a research paper on Central Asia … Continue reading The Hospitable Steppe – Kazakhstan
Visa chronicles: The Cinderella visa
With more than 20 countries under our conjoined belt, we often get asked about how we decide our destinations and plan our trips. Frankly almost the entire world is on our bucket list and how we shortlist our next destination is mostly left to chance and serendipity. But one reason which influences the decision to … Continue reading Visa chronicles: The Cinderella visa
Timeless Tallinn
My first brush with Tallinn was when I read about the ex-KGB station being discovered few years after the soviets left (more on that in another blog), the next was when I came to know that Skype was invented in Tallinn and the third was just before the trip when I came to know that … Continue reading Timeless Tallinn
