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When to go
Seasons, month by month, region by region
What it costs
Real budgets in dollars, with tables
Routes that work
Tested itineraries and combinations
Eating across Asia
What to order and where
On foot
Treks and long walks, described honestly
Before you book
Visas, permits, timing, practicalities
What we would skip in Uzbekistan
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
Uzbek food: bread, plov and the hour that matters
Uzbek cooking has a reputation for being heavy, repetitive and beige. One of those is true.
What does a trip to Uzbekistan cost?
The short answer is that Uzbekistan is one of the least expensive countries we send people to, and that the difference between…
Uzbekistan for the first time
Almost everybody arrives in Uzbekistan with the same two expectations, and almost everybody is wrong about both.
Uzbekistan month by month
The best time to visit Uzbekistan is a narrower answer than most countries, because the constraint is not rain or crowds. It…
The Afrosiyob high-speed train, and how to get a seat on it
The Afrosiyob is the single most important piece of infrastructure in Uzbek tourism. It is the reason a ten-day route through four…
Uzbekistan with children
Uzbekistan is a better family destination than almost anyone expects, and it fails in exactly one predictable way.
The Silk Road in two weeks: Uzbekistan, and whether to add Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan is the easiest serious Silk Road trip in the world, and that sentence holds both the appeal and the risk. Easy,…
Walking the Nuratau mountains, and sleeping at Aydarkul
Two thirds of the way through an Uzbekistan trip, something happens to most travellers. They have seen four or five extraordinary tiled…
How many days do you need in Uzbekistan?
Ten. If you want one number and nothing else, take ten days and stop reading.
Bukhara or Khiva: which one, if you can only do one
This question comes up on roughly half our Uzbekistan files, and it is almost always the same underlying problem. Somebody has eight…
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