A beautiful mud walled town located some 400 kilometres to the west of Bukhara across the Kyzylkum desert on the ancient silk road. Slave caravans would have made the barbaric journey in unimaginable conditions. Nowadays Bukhara and Khiva are connected by a semi paved potholed road with plenty of police checkpoints and to our surprise lots of Bulgarian bound trucks. It takes 6-7 hours to get here with a shared bright yellow taxi depending on what kind of driver you have. Our driver was crazy enough and got stuck trying to get from one bit of road to another bit of tarmac....(check the photo...)
A Rai-Stephie top tip in Khiva is to find a guesthouse with a nice roof top terrace, play guitar if you can, sleep under the stars, get woken up by the chirping birds and gaze at the medressas, minarets and mausoleums in the early morning light. Perfect.
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