Our flight which was supposed to arrive 10pm in Tashkent now arrived midnite local time with the two hour delays in Seoul. Added to this Uzbekistan is -4hours from Korea time so it's actually 4am for me now.The group of off duty stewardesses in the back two rows took their sleeping eye masks off, their make up kids out, and started doing their lashes and makeup. After boarding waiting buses we were taken to the arrivals building. This seemed like some tin warehou...

I have dreamt about this for years.................!!!!!Didnt think this was going to happen for a long while after so many problems trying to schedule the time and even harder problems getting the visa when I could go.Blog entries on my 8 day tour coming soonhttp://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog/l ondone7/23/tpod.htmlHere is a recent article on the cultural silk road from Korea to Turkey and the historical role Uzbekistan played at its centrehttp://www.korea.net...

Central Asia is a mysterious region unfamiliar to most foreigners. For most of the 20th Century it was amalgamated into the Soviet Union until the Republics sought independence in 1991. However they have a deep history reaching back to Ghenghis Khan and Alexander the Great, and have played a vital role in shaping the Empires of Persia, Russia, and India.The five Ex-Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan are collective...