Silk Route Project Craig and Simon are currently travelling from India to Istanbul with the fantastic support of World Nomads. On behalf of Footprints, World Nomad's charity, they will be visiting of a number of projects along the route to deliver supplies of essential medicines to impoverished children.

Trip: Utterly Uzbekistan

There are [3] stories from my trip: Utterly Uzbekistan

Paging Mr Timur you have your country back

UZBEKISTAN | Thursday, 5 Oct 2006 | Views [1983]

Well we have just spent 2 weeks soaking up the culture of Uzbekistan, this is where its at for Central Asia which is obvious by the amount of tour buses pushing the poor Ladas off the road. We started of in Tashkent which is your basic C.A. captial city ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

The Savage Bliss of Uzbek Massage

UZBEKISTAN | Tuesday, 26 Sep 2006 | Views [10822] | Comments [4]

It was with genuine excitement that I found out there were traditional bath houses in the ancient Uzbek city of Bukhara. Communal sauna and baths had been introduced to parts of Asia a couple of millennium ago by the hygiene obsessed Romans; they ... Read more >

Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health