
Blogarchívum
2009. szept. 1.
leltar / inventory

2009. aug. 29.
UZ to KZ
mondtak, hogy a tashkent melletti hataratkelo le van zarva, mert 2 eve felujitjak, es igy csak helyiek mehetnek ott at. ezek szerint en meg nem szamitok annak...
persze, 80 euro elleneben minden maskepp festene. de nekem nincs erre ennyi penzem :P
gondoltam, hogy vonattal megyek, az megiscsak egyszeru. persze, csak 2 nap mulva megy vonat. hurra. akkor nezzunk taxit! taxi kismillio dollarert vinne at. vagy akar ugyanennyi euroert. vegul nagynehezen megalkudtunk, hogy 50 euroert elvisznek (vonat 40, tehat ez nem olyan rossz...). csakhogy nekem 100-asom van, es mivel itt a dollar az ur, senki nem tudta felvaltani. kozben kiderult, hogy az egyik auto vinne a hatarig, ott kifizetnem, es o rendezne a masik soforrel. viszont azt nemt tudtuk megbeszelni, hogy mi arra a biztositek, hogy a masik oldalon tenyleg tovabbvisznek.
gondoltam, hogy akkor csak a hataratkeloig kerek taxit (50 km). erre el akartak kerni 30 eurot, mondvan, hogy vissza is kell jonnie. nem gyozte meg azon ervem, hogy visszafele majd elhoz egy masik turistat. mikor ez a vita jo 2 oraja ment, az egyik sofor kiakadt ram, es mondta, hogy menjek csak vonattal. es gondoltam, igaza van...
megvettem a jegyet. utana sorban jottek, hogy megiscsak elvinnenek, de persze keso banat. nagyon elegem volt mar a lehuzos uzbegekbol... ):
lenyeg, hogy almaty: kivalo fagyi, kinai etterem, es az ut soran eloszor: furdo (ezen azt ertsetek, hogy eddig csak tusolni tudtam...)
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this was definitely not easy. all i wanted is to get from one capital - tashkent - to another - almaty.
i was told, that the border next to tashkent is closed for two years for renovation, so only locals can cross it. it seems, that i am still not a local...
of course, if i pay them 80 euro, everything looked different. but no way... :P
i thought that i may take a train, that is simple. except if the next one comes in two days. great. so lets check the taxis. taxis are a fortune. ok, after negotiating a lot, i agreed on a price of 50 euro (train is 40, so this is ok). but i have a note of 100, and here usd is the king, noone could change it. wow!
soon it come up, that the driver would take me to the border only, i should pay there, and another driver would drive me to almaty. but how can i assure, that i really get there, if i already paid?!?
ok, so lets take a taxi to the border here (50 km), and find another there. for some reason noone really wanted to take me. or maybe for 30 euro, for 1/12 of the road!!! we had a debate of about 2 hours, when a driver shouted on me why i did not get the tarin. so i said ok, he might be right- and went to the cashier.
in a few minutes they came to me and offered me normal prices, but i was just fed up with them... ):
ok, train on the next day. when previously i travelled with train, i wanted to try the one without vagonsю тщеб unintentoinally, i managed. ~80 people in a car. we started with 4 hours of waiting on the border. the best was, that the train standed in a place, so the air did not move at all, no ventillation, windows cannot be opened at all etc. i had an upper bed, that meant, that i could not sit on the bed as there were baggages above. cool... anyway, 26 hours are not that much :P
anyway, good to know, that there is a limit of 10 melons on the train, you are not allowed to take more (:
i imagine what if everyone takes the maximum...
we got a pack of all the neccecities that one wants on the way including a comb, shoe-horn , sewing kit etc... except toilet papers in the restroom... (:
anyway, here i am again in almaty: great ice cream, chinese restaurant, and first time during my trip: a bath (meaning nothing else, but that i could only take showers until now...)
2009. aug. 26.
khiva phase II
this was the first time i met hungarians. again many thanks for the opportunity to join the group for a few hours. at least now i know the places i visited in the previous two days :P
2009. aug. 24.
megbelyegezve / stigmatized
ja, es a kedvencem: akartam venni egy sim kartyat, miutan a kirgiz szamomat nem tudtam itt hasznalni (pedig egy rakas penzzel feltoltottem), mert ott kulon kartyat kell venni, ha roamingolni akar az ember. de kiderult, hogy itt nem vehetek kartyat, csak ha van uzbeg utlevelem!!! no comment... (:
a few days ago i took a bus from bukhara to urgench. it took a bit more time, then i expected and had to stay in urgench for a night. this is the city, where the cheapest hotel in lp is 20$ (data from 2007), so i really wanted to avoid sleeping here. but i couldnt...
2009. aug. 22.
bukhara
na, jo, ez azert nem igaz. szoval itt vagyok bukhara-ban. vonatjegy csak elso osztalyra volt, ugyhogy masfel euro rafizetessel fullos, hatalmas borulesben utazhattam. es meg privat plazmateve is volt... mintha valahol nyugaton lennek. (: persze, azert mindent a helyi viszonyoknak megfeleloen kepzeljetek el! pl bukhara-ba csak napi egy vonat van, es ez az egesz menetrend:
megneztem ma kozep-azsia osszes mecsetet, es mindent, aminek tornya, ablaka, vagy egyaltalan bejarata van:
3 ora hosegben valo seta utan beultunk egy remek helyre, ahonnan egy csomo minden latszott a fentiekbol. kicsit persze hasonlit samarkand-ra, es khiva-tol sem varok nagyon kulonbozot a kovetkezo nehany napban...
bevallom, kicsit kezd elegem lenni a helyi arusok eroszakossagabol. es kicsit kiabrandito, hogy a gyonyoru, tobbezer eves epuleteket ellepik az arusok, es minden sarkon tukmaljak rad a leheto legkevesbe hasznalhato ajandektargyakat... kicsit elrontja a hely hangulatat ):
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hot... soooo hot... unbelievable. but what can one expect in the middle of the desert? the internet says it is only 34 C, but i think they mixed the two numbers... i just cannot do anything but looking for water, sitting, and suffering a bit, when walking (:
ok, this is not 100% true. here i am in bukhara. there was train ticket only for the first class, so for an extra 1.5 eur i could enjoy a huge leather seat, even with private plasma. of course the local one - i mean one from china.
i saw all the minarets and medressas that can be found nearby. here it goes:
after 3 hours of walking in hot, we found a great place, on the top of a 2-storey house, where they served very tasty food. i could enjoy an amazing view of the above mentioned buildings.
the place itself is very similar to samarkant, and i think that khiva will be a third place, that will look like this. but markets here are also amazing!
to be honest, i am a bit fed up with the agressive and pushy style of local sellers. i understand that they wanna sell everything, but there is a limit, when it's pretty hard to tolerate it... and it is a bit disappointing, that the beautiful, thousand-year old building are just full of sellers everywhere... kind of loosing the real value and athmosphere of the place ):
2009. aug. 20.
elo a hosszunadraggal! / prepare your long pants!
a hataratlepesnel fel ora sorbanallas, veszekedes es tulekedes utan egy centit sem mozdult a sor. uff, mondom, ebbol nem lesz estere samarkand... nem is lett. (:
valaki mondta, hogy menjek oldalra megkerdezni, hogy mit kell csinalnom a pakkommal, kell-e kulon ellenorzes. (megjegyzem, az emberek szatyrokkal alltak ott sorban) ez volt a szerencsem, mert kiszedtek a sorbol 'tourist' felkialtasok kozott, es atengedtek az elso kapun. kaptam egy papirt, hogy toltsem ki. a falakon 4 nyelven volt segitseg: oroszul, uzbegul, kirgizul, es a negyediket nem ismertem fel. ((:
aztan jott valaki segiteni. fel kellett irnom fillerre, hogy mennyi penz van nalam (nem tudom, hogy a bankkarytat hogy kellett volna elkonyvelni), illetve a hatizsakom tartalmat. hihi, mondom, vicces. de ok nagyon komolyan vettek! es utana azt is, hogy a jelenletemben kielemeztuk a hatizsakom atvilagitasat. megijedtek a turabotoktol, de amikor mutattam, hogy ott van kivul, az az, akkor nem elemeztek tovabb. aztan jott a fenykepezogep. vegigneztek az osszes kepem, el kellett meselnem, hogy mi hol keszult, kinel aludtam stb. es hat mertem volna ellenkezni? foleg a fenti kep lattan, ami a hataron keszult, epp 2 meterre a fenykepezest tilto tablatol... ((:
jott a penzvaltas. a legnagyobb helyi cimlet a 120 ft-os. ime, ennyi 10000 ft:
masnap vonat, es itt vagyok samarkant-ban. nagyon kiraly! tenyleg szep, en meg sosem voltam olyan helyen, ahol ennyire erezheto az iszlam hatasa. es hat minden timur-rol szol.
de meg is kerik az arat. sajnos az orszagban a rendorok szerepe eleg nagy, pl az egyik helyen egy rendor bent ult az egyik minaret elott, es plusz penzt szedett csak azert, hogy fel lehessen menni... na, mindegy, nem hagyom, hogy elvegyek a kedvem!
azon kivul, hogy meleg van, jo a kaja, es szep minden, nem nagyon tudok mit mondani. beszeljenek inkabb a kepek:
ok, uzbekistan. i was really surprised. more developed, then i thought before, and totally different from kyrgyzstan.
the border: half an hour of queueing, debating (not me but the others!) and pushing i was still standing at the same place, if not even a bit more back in the line... so, samarrkant will not be reached by the evening. and i was right. (:
i was told to go on the side to check, if i need extra checking for my baggage (people were queueing with a plastic bag only). this was my luck, because one of the controllers took me with shouting 'tourist', and let me go on the first gate. i got a paper to fill up, and hel in 4 languages: russian, kyrgyz, uzbek and i could not realize the last one. ((:
then someone came and helped. i had to list all the money i had (exact amounts! - still i dont know how to declare my credit card), and the context of my backpack... hehe, funny... but they took it really seriously. and then they started analyzing my backpack in my presence. they had a look on all my pictures in my camera and i had to explain them, where i was and where i took them, where i slept etc. would i dare to say no?!?
changing money is cool. the biggest note they have is ~half a euro. so i changed 2 pieces of paper to a kilo (left to right):
next day i took a train and now i am in samarkant! this is amazing. i have never been to a place, where the islamic impact is so huge. and everything is about timur
but the police is a bit corrupt. and entering to a place you can often see policemen sitting in front of the minaret and asking for extra money to let you in... anyway, i wont let myself being upset on it.
so, the weather is great, food is delicious, everything is nice, i cannot say more. i let the pictures speak instead of me:
