On the edge of Eurasia. From Novosibirsk to Malaysia on SUVs. Part II. Uzbekistan
THE END OF EURASIA 2013. PART II. Uzbekistan.
The previous part of the report:
Part I. Kazakhstan
After crossing the border extremely quickly changing. Once you understand that you're not in Kazakhstan. People, cars, the terrain is different. If not for the border, Uzbekistan could be safely recommended for the campers.
People looks at us, smiles, waving hands, shouting "Russia", "Novosibirsk"! Very friendly and good-natured people. However, our dialogue on the radio interrupts the voice of the local KGB, explaining that the broadcast frequencies 144-146 MHz. need permission from the government, and if we don't want problems, you better frequency does not hold. In General, this is no longer necessary, we have already arrived.
Tashkent looks great! The city is immersed in greenery. Despite the +35 day, breathe and walk easily.
After staying there for just a few hours, we all together put the city the highest rating among the other capitals of Central Asia. Perhaps even nicer Alma-ATA. For a full colorful perception to settle in the hotel "Uzbekistan" in the heart of the city.
A simple walk brings a lot of fun. Wide avenues, beautiful buildings, a large number of restaurants. And of course prices! Everything here is really cheap. You have to carry wads of money, inflation at the time strongly reduced the rate of Uzbek som.
A lot of the police, it is on duty everywhere. Here is a fairly strict order.
Maybe it's for the best. Machines here almost stealing (15 years for stealing), unnecessary topics (e.g., discussion of the President's daughter Gulnara Karimova) nobody is talking. The traditional trip to the local market. From the last trip, I brought lots of spices from the markets of Bukhara and Samarkand, this time the spices with the Tashkent market.
And of course, gourmet delights: samples pilaf. In the "center pilaf" it is made in huge cauldrons.
Part of pilaf is implemented there in the restaurant, is sold to take away.
Pilaf is awesome, he's not as good as Bukhara, Samarkand, it is just different. We found it somewhat stronger than we had tried before, in our last year's trip.
For fun in the evening decided to go to the restaurant, located in the tower. The food we were indifferent, but the revolving restaurant and the views of the city memorable.
Metro in Tashkent is clean and tidy. Like in the days of the Soviet Union.
There is no advertising, and everywhere signs in the carriages: "Vigilance is the requirement of time!".
As we later learned, better be careful, not long ago one of Russian citizens detained when he was just such an inscription photographed. The names of the metro stations are very poetic: "a Thicket of almonds", "Great silk way", "the Creator." Some names are a very fun look for Russian.
In independence square, a beautiful architectural ensemble. At night all is illuminated, the fountains are working, all is buried in verdure.
Walk through the summer to Tashkent simply fabulous!The locals love to have a conversation, know where we are and how we arrived. Feel the ancient culture, some sort of intelligence in the nation.
Our hotel at night looks already quite in the East .
Two days in Tashkent fly instantly.
On the third day we are ready to leave the friendly Uzbekistan. Following our stay in Tajikistan. To the border about 150 km of the Uzbek checkpoint, the border guards and customs officers have surpassed themselves: a little to upload all the contents of our cars, we still have to suffer all of THAT inside of the item to x-ray control. The illuminated everything. And that's when all the educated, proven, toothpaste tried to the taste, hands to the soldier dropped Nissan Navara gets my Ipad. Ten minutes later, he continuously presses all in a row, enchanted achievements of high-tech. Watching this unforgettable process, I finally asked him: "what are you looking for?". It seems that the question caught border guards by surprise: "Eeeee... and have sex?" Looking at my expressing a profound skepticism face he understands no sex, not even light erotica it's not to see. With a deep sigh Ipad is put into place. After a few hundred meters, almost friendly CAT with the Tajik side. There we meet friends.
To be continued...
The next part of the Tajikistan will be off-road, active and more prodajalna. Riding on the edge of the Pamir highway, with a direct view on Afghanistan, a record pass 4655 m. the Lay out of the first episode unites all successful in this journey to Central Asia.
I live channel "Russia 24" told about our film:
jonjonjon
I'm from Tashkent. We love guests. So come for a visit. I'm serious.
Awesome and thank you so much for the truth about my favorite and hometown.
And I can't come. It is necessary to make renunciation of Uzbek citizenship. And it's a lot of money and two years of waiting. So.
As they say, without comments.
We have plenty of Russians and not Russians.
No problems and no one complains.
why would I want to read, I used to live there was born and my parents were born there and we lived on the massif, 4 quarter, not some suburb.There is full Russian left, and 100 percent only 2 probably back . we have all the relatives have left, and welcome .and though I was not an adult although 14 years was when I left, but to this day I like the city, Chimgan, etc. but I remember it all. Still say that there was a separate queue at the store in the shopping center on the massif such as Russians and Uzbeks .And until the Uzbeks service not who the Russian was not looking .is this normal ? I think not . My mother was the lead news on TV and soon as it was in ' 98 said, either change the name in Uzbek or good bye . We have in the yard lived a family of Uzbeks and women we always yelled if we close either played or held, when you dump in Russia .It was not so .Do not flatter . it was everywhere .People do not go there where life is good .Threw sold for a pittance cars, apartments, lizh to leave because it was impossible .And now reading there is generally Karimov was like Stalin . not to breathe not to fart, excuse the expression .Even a picture is not allowed .This is not normal .Want more reasons I can give .Try to disprove .Anyway there are people who read this and agree !
Russians and other Nations in total 45 Nations living in Uzbekistan are very friendly. And someone drove, we didn't hear living in Tashkent. I am 44 years old.
Maybe somewhere in the suburbs, where flourished infiltrators and instigators hired dirty intelligence agencies of other countries this could happen for a very long time.
The Uzbek people have always been welcoming and friendly.
So it remains today.
In the case of read the novel by Dina Rubina "On the Sunny side of the street."
jonjonjon
I'm from Tashkent. We love guests. So come for a visit. I'm serious.
Awesome and thank you so much for the truth about my favorite and hometown.
and there are no longer Russian drive, every Uzbek I remember telling the Wali in his Russia
Thanks for Priglashenie. We will be happy. It remains the case for small, to choose the time. Good luck.
I'm from Tashkent. We love guests. So come for a visit. I'm serious.
Awesome and thank you so much for the truth about my favorite and hometown.
Saw a very interesting photo and an unusual view of the country, about which few knew.
Thanks for the photo and kind words about my hometown!
For five minutes I forgot everything fell into childhood.
The city is really beautiful, all in green, and when pilaf saw...as a child, under the poplar tree in the garden, on the couch with the whole family was treated, my dad would make a great pilaf.
Thanks again!
Was in Uzbekistan after the collapse of the USSR, at work, tried to change our industrial fans on their engines. Two weeks living in a hotel Uzbekistan, walked around the city, eating melons in December, just enjoying the holidays and life. There was nothing to do, payments and cars across the border did not go, and the visibility of the work (a state Agency) to do the needed task management. I visited Namangan and Andijan.
Only the sea of positive impressions!
DENisPATRIOT
"In our business the main thing — time to get away."(S) (preferably, to meet in three days)
I went to the mountains two years ago. Flew and flew from Tashkent. The check was done for a bribe through a friend. Privateers to stop, because everyone is afraid that the neighbors will flip to where it should.
You can stay in hotels with a legitimate check, but it is not our method.
In General, Uzbekistan is now for me only transit to 3 working days without hemorrhoids with check...
Just enough to read www.legislationline.org/r...nts/action/popup/id/14283 and rest assured, every comma of this resolution will be interpreted not in Your favor.
But in General, Yes, it is beautiful, tasty/hearty and warm!
And I can never come to Uzbekistan. Should make a renunciation of citizenship, and it is a lot of money and two years of waiting.
DENisPATRIOT
"In our business the main thing — time to get away."(S) (preferably, to meet in three days)
I went to the mountains two years ago. Flew and flew from Tashkent. The check was done for a bribe through a friend. Privateers to stop, because everyone is afraid that the neighbors will flip to where it should.
You can stay in hotels with a legitimate check, but it is not our method.
In General, Uzbekistan is now for me only transit to 3 working days without hemorrhoids with check...
Just enough to read www.legislationline.org/r...nts/action/popup/id/14283 and rest assured, every comma of this resolution will be interpreted not in Your favor.
But in General, Yes, it is beautiful, tasty/hearty and warm!
No. Everything is now fine. Only laws you cannot break anywhere))))
"In our business the main thing — time to get away."(S) (preferably, to meet in three days)
I went to the mountains two years ago. Flew and flew from Tashkent. The check was done for a bribe through a friend. Privateers to stop, because everyone is afraid that the neighbors will flip to where it should.
You can stay in hotels with a legitimate check, but it is not our method.
In General, Uzbekistan is now for me only transit to 3 working days without hemorrhoids with check...
Just enough to read www.legislationline.org/r...nts/action/popup/id/14283 and rest assured, every comma of this resolution will be interpreted not in Your favor.
But in General, Yes, it is beautiful, tasty/hearty and warm!
It was the case in 2009, he drove the whole Kazakhstan on Vista 92 years with his family. Adventure was car and small truck! 've opened my whole soul — scored a job reading You! Well done, may God give You health and good luck in everything! And I went... I Went to prepare the Patrol and hit the road.
CAH9l
Very nice to hear about his homeland, such words and reviews from the Russians, and everyone thinks that we ride on donkeys and live in the desert!)
Do not tell))))) I agree with you. Visited 15 capitals of the world. But Tashkent our home are the best!
CAH9l
Very nice to hear about his homeland, such words and reviews from the Russians, and everyone thinks that we ride on donkeys and live in the desert!)
What's wrong with living in the desert? I'm here in the desert he lived for 44 years in the cities of Uch — Kuduk and Zarafshan and not many do not regret it, and would have lived longer, if not for the circumstances.
Very nice to hear about his homeland, such words and reviews from the Russians, and everyone thinks that we ride on donkeys and live in the desert!)
Oh Tashkent, Tashkent. Hometown. I was born and raised there. In ' 92 had to emigrate to Russia. So want to go there. Everything is so changed.
I do not want to offend anyone, but it seemed to us that the Uzbeks with a mmm probably intelligent people among the other peoples of Central Asia. Very well-behaved and neat people. On the roads there, kick is not happening. Money with us, especially no one took it, and the motion yeah, the Asian places much ;-)
The Tashkent native Tashkent he can be known forever! Also born and raised there. Thanks for the report, very pleased and in some way caught up with nostalgia.About the border guards that Yes, they are all looking for what you can money to fuck))) otherwise, great nature super education anyway, earlier was at the highest level. however on the roads probably kick what's going on? Rules with a huge amount of police when not))))
Regarding the inspection of the iPad, I can say that in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with the video-type porn or videos on the topic of religious extremism is banned. There was a case where our countrymen were in prison in Uzbekistan for a movie on the laptop on which he did not know, because I bought it second-hand before leaving. Sat there for six months, maybe more. then released by agreement between the two countries, but the life and health spoiled in jail.
Lemonishe
Hell, I myself so much I managed to, although up to 99 years he lived there and was born there, the real nostalgia, but I remember there attitude to the Russian, and that scares unfortunately, right now, may have changed but before was hell .A separate queue for the Russian bread market Racecourse came, and the Uzbeks in the mother fired plastic pistols on the legs . swinsto damn .I remember it and for it unfortunately I do not like this people, are everywhere the bastards, but who lived there will understand that this is true .
+2000. And if this were not so no one would leave from there!
Hell, I myself so much I managed to, although up to 99 years he lived there and was born there, the real nostalgia, but I remember there attitude to the Russian, and that scares unfortunately, right now, may have changed but before was hell .A separate queue for the Russian bread market Racecourse came, and the Uzbeks in the mother fired plastic pistols on the legs . swinsto damn .I remember it and for it unfortunately I do not like this people, are everywhere the bastards, but who lived there will understand that this is true .
Beauty!
Last year was on a business trip in Tashkent... such beauty! just by all these places went...
however it was very hot... +43 as it is very much fried.
That read did not think that the Uzbek border guard was looking for porn to view/jump/demonstrations, etc., to justify the actions of the above-mentioned "frame" explain:
We have the law not to promote, distribute videos, audios, literature, etc. mostly erotic and/or religious nature (the word "religious" meaning predominantly Islamic, and the rest at so critical, you know why).
about LPD, we have not learned, did not need to. Yes, and to say whether citizen band can not do anything...
We didn't have CB antennas, radios, and as such we do not hold )
"for broadcast on the frequencies 144-146 MHz. need permission from the government"
Ie even LPD with 50 mW are not allowed?
And SV range (27mgts) is allowed, too, or only on special permits?
Incidentally, the photo of car antennas MW range have not noticed — not used? PS Saw the antenna on the other photos :)
Very nice to read about your native city where he was born and grew up!
Maybe this place used to be awesome but now everything has changed, you can safely open your business and know that tomorrow will not come and will not close you.So in a literal sense then great, who has not been there yet, I advise you to visit Tashkent!
After the description and the video really really wanted to visit Tashkent at least! Very cool show and tell!
Eh... Native Tashkent... We have so much in common). By the way, the first photo — the monument to bribery)))
Tashkent, beauty. beneath this beauty and refined underground lurks a terror on the level of Stalin, God forbid all Russian safely move and find their place in Russia )
damn, I read the reviews and how much from countrymen from Tashkent ))) Guys, Hello to you, Tashkent!
Thanks for the pictures! I remembered a lot
Lived here for two years, first impressions were very similar. Then comes the understanding that there is a complete stagnation. "Intelligence" actually is timidity. Even the officers and custom hide your head in the sand if you just raise your voice.
By the way lucky, what happened to photograph the subway. I have tried the cops to take away the phone.
Yes, the Uzbeks made a crowd to get to one Uzbek. A couple of times myself. Still regret that I didn't started fucking. I was young, 14 years old )
well, I do not know in ' 99 went out and never was such that I wanted to go back -))) Max nastalgiya . as there was born but not olee .Just remember Uzbeks in the yard к5огда we played football in Tolley whether what we yelled ( Wali in Russia ) Is not who doesn't remember it .we still were kids and anyway we agrilis like animals . Or on the racetrack shot Russian women's legs with pistols with plastic pellets .This tell was not ? Or started to sell cars apartments, all sold for pennies because it was unbearable to live .I lived in the massif, 4 quarter, this is not the edge of the city all the same, it is RussianAcademy district . Honestly I have many friends and my parents went there and who absolutely did not want to go back ! Let nature weather great, but the boorish attitude of the Uzbeks, though, edge half plated thru hole worse than the donkeys, sorry, just do not messing with people's heads and tell there as well .Yes as a tourist I live at least 15 years ago there was unbearable, what my parents not in poverty there is absolutely .It's so simple to avoid this that you lived in squalor, etc., Well they lived there in prosperity . but the relationship was not human so how do pull up and spared no one in our family .Don't get me wrong, if someone hurt, but I told the truth !
Right, lots of people are leaving Uzbekistan, I think that in Russia everything will be good!But after a year or two start to complain that there is no work, money, etc. including and I have such friends who want to come back.Although they departed with joy.The essence is the same"Everywhere is good there where we are not present"
p/s I watched "On the Sunny side of the street" and the truth reveals the essence of those times and shows the hospitality of our country.
A huge thank you to the author of the post for such a nice review about my favorite city.
But if someone says something about the fact that Russian did not like, and so on, that is their problem. In Russian do not like Russian migrated from Central Asia. I know about it not by hearsay.
But I don't want to prove anything to anyone. Who wants to come and he'll see with your own eyes.
God is our judge!
During the second world war, that is, in the Great Patriotic war in Tashkent, that is, the Uzbeks have taken shelter and have raised children of all nationalities, especially Russian.
Who wants to know about Tashkent, please read the book by Dina Rubina "On the Sunny side of the street."
How can you say that you do not understand. I meant that intelegentnoy and Eastern education, is interpreted as timidity. Two years spent in Tashkent in vain.