After New Years eve in Mexico City, we decided to spend a few days checking our Bacalar Lake in Quintana Roo, Mexico, with our friends from Dallas. We flew into Cancun, rented a car, and drove south via Playa Del Carmen; past Tulum and Akumal, and drove south close to the Belize border. The drive…
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Mexico City, Mexico, Dec 2019 After our long trip through Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbeksitan) in Sept-Oct 2019, we decided to spend 2019-2020 New Year’s eve timeframe to explore Mexico City. We stayed initially at the Intercontinental Hotel in the Polanco area; which was a nice, upscale, area. Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico, as…
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This post is part of a series called Silk Road Uzbekistan Oct 2019 Tashkent, Oct 2019 Oct 26, 2019 The flight from Urgench (Khiva) to Tashkent was a short flight of 1hr and 10mins; we arrived at the domestic terminal, which was empty & collected our suitcases from the roller belt. We had booked at…
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This post is part of a series called Silk Road Uzbekistan Oct 2019 Khiva, Oct 2019 Oct 22, 2019 We left Bukhara by train once again, this time to Khiva, another ancient city on the Silk Road. There were no high-speed trains on this route, so it took us 5.5 hrs. on this slower train…
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This post is part of a series called Silk Road Uzbekistan Oct 2019 Bukhara, Oct 2019 Oct 18, 2019 After a very nice time in Samarkand, it was time to move to Bukhara, Uzbekistan. To get to Bukhara from Samarkand, we had purchased tickets on the Afrosiyob high speed train the day before, from the…
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