UZBEKISTAN / TAJIKISTAN
ROUTE from samarcande to duchambe
IN SAMARCANDE:
HOTEL: bahodir guest house,
6 dollars for breakfast plus dinner = great place
BIKE: around
stadium: vladimir can help for impossible bike repairs but nothing
to buy
INTERNET: net city, 500 som, was
so so
SHOPPING: cover market, great place
for food
MONEY: cash advance in nation
bank of uzbekistan, 3.5% commission for visa, 4% for master card
CASH
EXCHANGE: change money in penjikent: 1 dollar = 3.28 tjk
PRICES:
bread 0.5 tjk
ROUTE:
- leaving samarcande along registan road toward east, always straight on towards
tadjik border after 40km.
- no trouble except that uzbek want to see all
receipt for money but no registration papers are asked
- bad road till khojan
road, cross road, up and down quite slow
- food in ayni, no water problem
till duchambe
- pass starts at about 2300 for 15 km step on dirt road till
3200m, then down till duchambe with really good road in the end
- duchambe malohat band b close
- find some help in "bactria cultural center" with
friendly people (you can buy a really expensive but good map for GBAO, it's
useful for water points)
- acted GH: 10 dollars, nothing cheaper, acted is
the street in front of the theatre (rajabov) then dead end on the right after
the second crossroad
- great game company, they arrange gbao (but
then stole me money on my credit card!), difficult to find the office behind
varzob bazar
VISA:
- visa extension impossible without agency. they said it
cost 45 dollard for a week and 50 for two with minimum 3 days delay
- china visa very easy: 50 dollars for 90 days, 2 days delay,
china embassy on rudaky, 30 dollars for one week waiting
MONEY: exchange rate in duchambe 1 dollars = 3.3 tjk
1 euro =
4.14
- don t buy the cheap tuna-fish in black and yellow box, it's
impossible to eat!
- no bike shops around
TRANSPORT: bus 1 and 8 are useful to move on rudaki
retour
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