lørdag den 2. maj 2015

Tashkent metro tour, swimmingpool and tourist trap

Jalol offered to take us on an extra city walk to show us their famousmetro. Every station is unique with the impressive architecture and nice decorations (Hey Danish Metro people you could learn something here!). We got out at a couple of stations and amongst the different themes there are the astronaut the nature and the stations which marks the Olympics. It's also not allowed to take pictures in the metro or at the underground stations for security reasons.

This city walk was only for a couple of hours so after the metro trip we had a short walk around the city to see the center, a park and some monuments. Some people went home and some of us went to a local restaurant Jalal recommended. You can see the cooks cooking the food and it's always very packed. We had some great noodles and really enjoyed to watch them cook.

Mikkel went to the market afterwards and Malene decided to go back to the hotel to enjoy the sun and the swimming pool. It's the first time we've been able to use the pool in a hotel because many of them don't have water in them yet.

The market was quite impressive with a separate section devoted only to meat. Not like a small corner. No, more like 100 butchers in one big arena-like building. Separate sections of everything – big market. Still difficult to find a pair of shorts for Mikkel. Not that my “personal shopper” didn't try but he failed to find something I wanted.

A couple of people in the group had their last evening on the trip – Charles, Leslie, Emer – so we all went out for dinner at a restaurant Jalol chose. Unfortunately it was a totally tourist trap with very expensive food but not very good food and horrible band who went from table to table playing tourist songs. An evening we thought would be a fun night out ended up being quite a dull evening and people went to bed early.

Local Tashkent bus



Metro decoration

Tashkent metro

The Ezgulik arch








Traidtional food - variation of Pilaf



Dicing meat for the stew

Noodles, egg and meat



Counting money - "Uzbek soup"




Chorsu Bazaar

Meat market in Tashkent



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