Xorazm Region

Best travel reports from Xorazm Region

More beautiful architecture, an Uzbek wedding and shipwrecks in the desert

We went from Samarkand to Khiva by night train. The trips takes 11:30h. This train station looks especially exceptional! The night train was from old soviet times. New ones have...

22nd stage "Urgench, Uzbekistan"

Today, there was only a relatively short stage of about 150km to Urgench. Since I had until midday to check out, I took that time. While I was packing, I got chatting to Chris....

Again and again Urganch

The night of Wednesday, December 25th, 2019, was icy again. So it takes until half past ten in the morning when I thawed out and crawled out of the tent. A short time later, we...

Urganch - Chiwa

Nachdem wir in der Nacht zu Samstag, den 21.12.2019, erst gegen eins im Nest waren, tut der morgendliche Kaffee ganz gut. Auch das restliche Frühstücksangebot, im Hostel Graf in...

Stage 96: From Bukhara to Khiva

Our hosts kindly asked their taxi driver neighbor to take us to the train station at night for a good price. Unfortunately, there was no sleep on the train. It was so stuffy and...

Uzbekistan: Khiva

With the night train from Bukhara deep into the Uzbek infinity to Khiva, my narrow favorite before Samarkand. Very sleepy, also touristy, but much less intrusive. It was...