One of the great cities of the silk road was waiting for us. Khiva used to be a point on the silk road where slaves were sold. It appears to be a lot more than that. It is a real pearl in the desert.

On a resting day we are not really resting but need to do some exercise as well to stay fit. A good exercise seemed to climb the 47m minaret in the morning. Not so difficult, if not for the high steps and the dark stairway 🙂 The top gave nice vistas over the town.

We visited a series of museums, the nature, history, handcraft, and so on. The Friday mosque with its many wooden colons is also very beautiful.

During our walk we saw again a famous face. It was Dgahongir from Tashkent with his colleauges now 🙂 His colleague helped us out with our new fuel problem. We needed fuel for a 400km ride to Bukhara tomorrow.
They also gave us a tip for a nice uzbek restaurant outside of the city walls.

After visiting the bazar, we went to buy the fuel. It was not sold in 5l water bottles like in Nukus, but in an iron jerrycan now. They guy told us it was 20l, of course there was no way to check this. I used an old nylon sock as a prefilter as the fuel is really dirty also. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the fuel quality 🙂

In the evening we went to the uzbek restaurant named Dilnura. Thanks Dgahongir!

We walked back to our hostel and enjoyed Khiva by night from our rooftop terrace, with a fanta of course 🙂