Caravanistan

https://www.seat61.com/Uzbekistan.htm Seat61 indicates there is a daytrain in to Bukhara three days a week. Perhaps younseqrched for a day it does not run? Another possibilities is that due to covid/lack of tourists it does not run curtently. I am, however, not up to date what the covid situation is...

Thats true, but what about the risk of bringing in Covid. It might not be detectable 72 hours beforehand, while you still have it.

Interesting, any opinions from an ethical perspective whether we should travel to Kyrgyzstan?

On a sidenote: I read about a similar arrangement for Pakistan. So there might be a few options next summer, wonder whether otger Central Asian countries open up.

https://skift.com/2020/06/14/uzbekistan ... ZOX_ZKd_vk


Uzbekistan is slowly opening up.

julistan wrote:Went to the new visa center in mid november 2019.
No pb to apply with a simple tourist 1 month vietnamese visa. Exactly the same docs as usually mentionned before.

With or without something as a residence permit?

I visited the crater in the same periid on year ago. Plebty of yurts at the crater, but they all seemed closed. What did you end up doing? Is it realistic to expect yurts to rent out every night? I did the train option. Perhaps it was possible to let the motorcycle guy that took arrange accomodatio...

I visited the crater in the same periid on year ago. Plebty of yurts at the crater, but they all seemed closed.

There is a Kazakhstan visa page which answers your 2nd quedtion. I would want to do the pamirs asap as it only gets colder. Your first question is too broad. What are your interests, mode of transport etc? But you could fill two months in Tajikistan only. You will need to make choices, but you will ...

Even without Russian I had a great time. There are always ways to communicate without spoken language. Download a translation app, bring a phrasebook and perhaps learn a few russian words. There is enough beaten path in central asia where English is no problem. The level of English in the Tajik Pami...

https://caravanistan.com/planning

Start from the link above. Come back if you have more detailed questions.