Uzbekistan
A 6 weeks trip in Uzbekistan and a few days in Tadjikistan
Chinoz - Sardobara
10 mai
Departure at 7:30 am to avoid the heat.
Always an excellent welcome everywhere. Even a car honks at us on the main road, we wave back, they stop and wave, we join them. Mr. and Mrs. get out of the car, we chat for 5 minutes and Mrs. gives us each a 100,000 soums bill [1] !
A fruitful stopover in the town of Bakht, where we grab a bite to eat, find a bike store and get Daniel to put the missing screw/nut back on his luggage rack [2]. The coffee is very good... admittedly freeze-dried... (…)
Tashkent - Chinov
9 mai
We set off from Tashkent for the first day of cycling. It was a short stage of around sixty kilometers, during which we knew we’d have to make some adjustments.
Breakdowns, incidents, falls...
We stopped several times because Daniel’s rear mudguard touched. It takes a while to realize that it’s actually the luggage rack that’s loose : a screw is loose on one side and completely missing on the other. We repositioned the luggage rack correctly, tightened the remaining screw and that was (…)
Tashkent
8 mai
Departure from Toulouse
Marc takes us to the airport with the big bike boxes. We’re quite a bit ahead of schedule, but everything’s going smoothly everywhere. The Turkish plane that’s due to take us to Istanbul to catch the flight to Tashkent is running quite late : a little worry, but in the end we won’t have to walk much in Istanbul’s immense airport, and we’re wide.
Arrival in Tashkent
The bikes are the last to leave the luggage conveyor. We’d asked for a transfer to the hotel but (…)
Uzbekistan
This year I’ll be spending almost 6 weeks exploring Uzbekistan.
I’ll be traveling with Daniel, who has just retired and bought a bike for the occasion !