Tag: Bukhara, cell phone, Khiva, Silk Road, travel, Uzbekistan
The Great Cellphone Saga
Somewhere in the ruins of the Urgench fortresses the cell phone dropped out of my side bag and into the hot, desert sand. It was not until...
There and Back Again, a Lauren’s Tale
For those of you who got the reference above to Tolkien, I salute you. (and for those of you who got the ‘I salute you’ reference from...
Khiva A Silk Road Oasis
Khiva was once renowned for its exotic and plentiful slave trade along the silk route. Slaves were captured in distant lands and marched...
Inshallah We Shall Arrive in Khiva
Having decided to leave Bukhara, we endeavored to find a way to Khiva, a city on the western side of Uzbekistan. There was a train, but it...
