Day12

After breakfast we walked around the old city.  It is walled with tiny streets and thousands of vendors. Bo read somewhere that you can walk on top of the city walls and get a nice view of the city so we embarked on a quest of finding access to the walls. With some difficulty finding several people along the way, we did find it. It wasn’t what we expected it was a crumbling, pretty steep stone ramp, not easy to climb. We did it anyway and walk on top toward the main gate hoping that there may be a better way to get down there. The view was not spectacular either. When we reached the main gate, there was a dead end and no way down so we had to go back the same way. On the way back we met an Uzbek man and Bo started a conversation with him in Russian. The first question he asked was :where are you from/”, the second “How old are you” followed by “how many children do you have?”, etc. We later found out that this is a pretty standard way of questioning. To get down from the wall, Bo had to take off her shoes for better grip. In the afternoon, we visited Mosques, Madrasas (it’s all the same). Bo did some shopping (earrings). After an early dinner we had an hour bus ride to the airport which was a disorganized mess.  Our flight to Tashkent was not non-stop and we had layover in Bukhara. Then we had to wait an hour for luggage. We did not get to hotel till 2 am.