A leisurely start to the day with a breakfast at 1000 consisting of 3 eggs each, bread, cheese, butter and jam. When the fried, soft yoked eggs arrived Maria looked at me concerned and asked 'How do you catch Semolina?'. We took a short drive at 1100 to start our visit to Solomon's Throne, a holy place on top of a local mountain. A steep initial climb cross country took us to the concreted and railed path that lead us past the museum and on to Babur's Shrine...

Bit of an easy start this morning as we decided not to do the museum or silk factory tours, preferring instead to have a lie-in and later departure. Breakfast was served by the same delightfully friendly crew who looked after us so well during dinner last night and we set off at 1000 for the border crossing to country number 6 on our mammoth journey, Kyrgyzstan. We stopped for an early lunch at Andijon, birthplace of Babur, the kahn who settled in India and sta...