{"id":247,"date":"2010-09-30T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:27:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T14:27:23","slug":"almaty-to-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Almaty to Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Shymkent to The Uzbekistan went smoothly and we were across the border within 2 hours (some people took 6). Then we drove to Tashkent (250 km total).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The countryside has changed as there are 25 million people living in 447400 sq kms in Uzbekistan. The countryside is fields of cotton which they are picking at the moment (4<sup>th<\/sup> largest producer of cotton fibre), sun flowers and other produce like corn. \u00a0Tashkent (the Capital) had a wonderful hotel and many of the buildings were very modern. Later I found out that in 1966 they\u2019d had a huge earthquake that levelled vast areas. From our Hotel window I could see a large park and an adventure park complete with rollercoaster, water slides and ferrous wheels! Then walking to a local bazaar we passed shops with brands like Victoria Secret, Adidas and Zara!!! Not quite what I had expected..Maybe I was a little naive before coming to these countries and their modern cities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_6342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-248\" src=\"http:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_6342-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We walked to a wonderful food Bazaar before having an early night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_63361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-250\" src=\"http:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_63361-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_63361-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_63361-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I would add more photos but the internet here in Samarkand is painfully slow and takes about 15 mins\/photo. So I&#8217;ll add more when I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Shymkent to The Uzbekistan went smoothly and we were across the border within 2 hours (some people took 6). Then we drove to Tashkent (250 km total). \u00a0The countryside has changed as there are 25 million people living in 447400 sq kms in Uzbekistan. The countryside is fields of cotton which they are picking at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almaty to Uzbekistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Almaty to Uzbekistan - Peking to Paris","description":"\u00a0Shymkent to The Uzbekistan went smoothly and we were across the border within 2 hours (some people took 6). Then we drove to Tashkent (250 km total). \u00a0The coun"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}