17. June, 2004
Greetings from Bukhara! It’s 100 degrees, but we are seeing the sights and having a wonderful time. Last night we took the train from Samarkand, it took 7 hours and the Soviet-designed train didn’t have any windows, so it was rather a trial. We spent 3 days in Tashkent, where we stayed in an acquaintance’s apartment. We saw a production of “the barber of Seville” at the opera house for fifty cents, and saw a few mosques. We stayed in a lovely B and B in Samarkand, and the architecture was stunning. There is much to see and do here, we are staying with a PCV, a retired college professor from PA! His experiences seem in many ways similar to ours… We hope to travel to Khiva the day after tomorrow, if we can find a way.
Greetings from Bukhara! It’s 100 degrees, but we are seeing the sights and having a wonderful time. Last night we took the train from Samarkand, it took 7 hours and the Soviet-designed train didn’t have any windows, so it was rather a trial. We spent 3 days in Tashkent, where we stayed in an acquaintance’s apartment. We saw a production of “the barber of Seville” at the opera house for fifty cents, and saw a few mosques. We stayed in a lovely B and B in Samarkand, and the architecture was stunning. There is much to see and do here, we are staying with a PCV, a retired college professor from PA! His experiences seem in many ways similar to ours… We hope to travel to Khiva the day after tomorrow, if we can find a way.
