As a woman, traveler, and the type that tends to like parachuting into off-the-beaten track destinations, I long for articles that point out where women should go and where they should exercise extra caution when going. Well, USA Today features a fine piece for the solo ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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As a woman, traveler, and the type that tends to like parachuting into off-the-beaten track destinations, I long for articles that point out where women should go and where they should exercise extra caution when going. Well, USA Today features a fine piece for the solo ...Red Corner: Tamerlane's Uzbek Legacy
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In the pantheon of truly bloodthirsty leaders, the name Tamerlane hardly strikes recognition in the western world (indeed, as I'm typing this on Microsoft Word, the spell-check dictionary fails to recognize the name). Yet, historians claim this sadistic warlord was ...Central Asia Refresher
Every once in a while it's nice to remind ourselves about places that may not be on the top of our travel lists, but we forget exist or never knew existed. As I've been sharing some upcoming travel plans with people it's suddenly starting to strike a nerve how much of the ...Red Corner: The Aral Sea(less)
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Spare a moment for the fisherman of the Aral Sea.
50 years ago they pulled 50,000 tons of fish out of this body of water annually. Today, the water is all but gone and the fish replaced with camels.
Located mostly in Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once one of our planet's ...Word for the Travel Wise (05/07/06)
Just when I thought I couldn't unearth any new hard to find languages in the world and on the web today I discovered a few and I do mean very few links into one I'm sure you are all dying to know! (I surprise myself sometimes.) Before I just blurt out the word let me add ...Red Corner: Peter Hopkirk's Central Asia comes Alive
Until just recently, Central Asia had all but disappeared from the world's consciousness. Swallowed up by the Soviet Union in the early part of the 20th century, places like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan simply vanished anonymously from the world stage.
After ...Montezuma's Revenge
I’m
not sure why Montezuma is always so vengeful, and what it is I’ve done to piss him off, but for whatever reason he
has extracted the sweet taste of revenge numerous times upon my travel-weary body.
Montezuma’s Revenge, diarrhea, Hershey’s Squirt; ...Red Corner: Eatin' Dog
Kobe beef is usually the most expensive meat you can buy in an upscale market; in Uzbekistan, it's dog meat.
Dog came to fashion in Uzbekistan thanks, in part, to Joseph Stalin. During his rule, Stalin exiled ethnic Koreans from Russia's Far East to Central Asia where ...
