Caravanistan

I'd be very careful using Iron Horse Nomads for anything. I experienced very uneven results when doing business with them a year ago, and they never seemed to care when they were making mistakes.

I booked on an on-line travel agency (BudgetAir) and it all went fine. Mind you, there was no online check-in. Also worth mentioning that my experiences with Uzbekistan Airways have been, shall we say, dismal. On par with the old JAT in the early 2000s with the cabin crew smoking in the galley. Whe...

do you want to discuss the problem of ill people who cannot get normal medical care because of coronapanic? i mean e.g. cancer and other really heavy deseases, as every hospital or clinic is focused mainly on the corona, and most of the medical examinations or medical treatments or surgeries are sh...

mazeno wrote:stars above you
not citylights

That's a selfish, narrow minded perspective. You don't care that you'll (eventually) be a burden to some other country's health care system?

mazeno wrote:i wish i was stuck somewhere on the road, not at home...
[email protected]*%#n panic

How is being stuck on the road better for you or anyone else?

Most of what I found in rural Kyrgyzstan was with rice.

Airline routes & fares are not some highly guarded secret. Some very basic searches on your search engine of choice will answer these questions. And since fares change often, asking people to search for a fare and post it in this forum is pointless.

In Khiva, I've managed to get Som from the ATM just inside the main (West Gate) of the old town with a Mastercard. I'd pretty much given up trying the MC as it never worked in any ATM I tried, so was very shocked when the money appeared! No MC sticker on the machine. That is truly surprising. I att...

Fuller wrote:We tried the ATM in the middle of the night (no sign of the exchange) and unfortunately it was out of cash!

The exchange booth is before immigration. The ATMs never seem to have cash (or work) in the airport.

Wifi was available at all the places that I spent the night across the region. It worked fine, but wasn't blazing fast. I didn't need fast internet access, just something that allowed me to keep up with emails, and basic web surfing (not video streaming, etc). I got a SIM card in both Kyrgyzstan & U...