The Silk Road

is present everywhere here and is made visible with pride by the people here. Uzbekistan is not as advanced as Kazakhstan. But you can see that the country is working on it. The people are all nice, helpful, and sociable. In a few days, I had hundreds of great contacts. Everyone is interested in where we come from, what we do here, etc. Except in the big cities at the tourist spots, it's different. Only there do you come across this 'want to buy a wool carpet' mentality.