If I wanted to go to Xinjiang, it was probably because I had a 1088 round-trip ticket from Xiamen to Urumqi. It happened that at that time, I saw a lot of people visiting Kazakhstan, a neighboring country of China, through land ports. At that time, I decided to go abroad for a trip because my direct flight to Turkey was canceled.
Too long has not been out of the country, was a little afraid, on the Internet about a few friends to go to Almaty charter car play. During the few days waiting for you in Yining, I went to Sayimu Lake, Zhaosu Lake and Teksi River to see what Xinjiang should look like in winter in my dream, such as blue ice and bubble ice. The swans were waving their wings, and in the distance were endless snow-capped mountains.
One of my deepest memories of Almaty, Kazakhstan, was the day Noor took me on the return trip. She took me to Panfilov Park, Almaty’s Soviet-era subway station, Almaty’s Almaty Avenue, and Friendship Avenue, where she smoked shisha and drank beer and walked me through what a local day looks like. The most important thing was that we went to eat Korean food, which included my first mouthful of hot soup in ten days. It was very moving.
Who would have thought that when I decided to go to Samarkand, it was because I had read my Central Asia LP on the plane to Urumqi that the Central Asia architecture collection should be in Uzbekistan? Adhering to the “come to” travel four-word motto, it must be to see.
In Uzbekistan, I can often feel the kindness of people. From the beginning completely do not understand the train ticket, often can not find the train very upset, but in fact as long as you give the ticket to the conductor to see they will help you. For example, I see it’s almost time to leave, but this train is not my train. Then I asked the conductor, and he took my luggage on, through the first train, and off again, and I learned that I had to cross the train to find my train.
Including taking a taxi, ordering food, although we can not communicate, but body language and translation software, we can slowly understand each other’s needs. At these points, I think Uzbeks are very friendly.
The following is the itinerary of the ten days.
Yili, Xinjiang
Day1 Xiamen – Urumqi
Day2 Urumqi – Yining – Sayimu Lake – Zhaosu
Day3 Zhaosu – Teksi River Swan – Yuhu Blue Ice – Swan Spring – Yining
Day4 Yining Kazanki
Kazakhstan
Day5 Yili – Khorgos Port – Almaty
Day6 Almaty
Day7 Almaty – Train to Tashkent
Uzbekistan
Day8 Tashkent – Hotel Uzbekistan
Day9 Tashkent – Samarkand
Day10 Samarkand
Day11 Samarkand – Bukhara one and a half hour high speed train
Day12 Bukhara leaves for the station at 22:00 PM
Day13 arrives at Khiva at 07:00 by overnight train
Day14 Khiva – Tashkent
Day15 Tashkent – Almaty
Day16 Almaty – Ili
Day17 A rotten day in Yining
Day18 Yining – Urumqi
Day19 Urumqi – Xiamen
Currently, Uzbekistan has a 10-day visa-free policy for aircraft entering and leaving the country, but an exit ticket number order is required when a plane enters the country. If you go in and out by train like me, you need to apply for an Uzbek electronic visa, which is valid for one entry within 180 days and stays for 30 days.
Especially if you travel to Uzbekistan, fly to Urgench from Tashkent, take a taxi to Khiva, take a train to Bukhara, then take a high speed train to Samarkand and then leave, so as to save the essence for last. Because if you see Samarkand in the first place, all the rest of Uzbekistan’s World Heritage sites will do.
