03. July 2026

Day 58: Khiva

Overview

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Start: Samarkand
End: Khiva
Night Location: 41°23'5" N 60°21'30" E

Uzbekistan

Instead of watching the football game, I decided to go for a run. Really nice here and the city felt still asleep, but the heat (or to be precise the sun) was already making it hard. And that at 8 in the morning :)

Then the pool was used, or more the area to simply relax. We had a quick lunch at the restaurant next door, which was surprisingly good. Then at 16:30 we did a free walking tour through the old city, which was interesting and very well done by young Shakh.

To close off the day we had dinner at the Old Terrassa, which was good but a bit strange when it was time to pay. First they told us only cash but forgot all the wine on the check, then after a bit of discussions they added all the wine and “found” a card terminal… we weren’t sure what the play was here.