So, my take on Tajikistan has been a little chaotic. Khjuand was the first place I went to in Tajikistan. We took a Marhsutka from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which isn’t that far over the border. It’s about 3 hours nonstop from Tashkent, but this doesn’t count the passport control between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Also, if you…
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Unusual capital city spotting: Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
A few years ago, I wrote about the weirdest capital city I’ve ever been to, Astana, Kazakhstan. Yeah, that one might now be Dushanbe, Tajikistan. I have to revisit Astana to compare notes. We went to Dushanbe after visiting Khujand, Tajikistan. We decided to skip the 8-10 hour marshrutka through the mountains and save that…
Happy New Year from the space cadet!
Happy New Year, y’all! Another year, the same cadet! The bad 2023 was a geopolitical mess and has shown us that media literacy, critical thinking skills, and international cooperation are needed more than ever. I posted my two cents about Israel-Palestine a couple of years ago. My points remain very firm on this. This has…
Silk Road Stops: How to visit the Seven Lakes in Tajikistan
Alright, so change of scenery. Last spring, I spent a few weeks in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, visiting some of the main Silk Road sites. I went to Central Asia for the first time in 2017 but didn’t make it to Uzbekistan or Tajikistan. Today, I’ll write about one of my favourite places: the Seven Lakes…
The weirdest capital city I’ve ever been to
The weirdest capital that I have ever been to Originally written on 23/11/2017 Some of my fellow travel friends often tell me I am too focused on visiting capitals of places and miss the “real deal” of a country. I forgot the memo that the hundreds of thousands that live in capitals don’t account for…