Larisa was feeling a bit sick in the stomach. We decided to take it easy today. Nevertheless we needed to get up early as we were visiting the Registan.

We went down and met with Charlotte, Eline, Eva and Marie. The Registan is not far from Bahodir, so we quickly arrived at sunrise at the Registan. Our contact was on site and let us in. He was impressed as I was with 5 women, I think the normal maximum is four 🙂

We could go up in one of the minarets and watched the sun rise. We also saw some older women in the park praying.

It was really nice as we had the whole place for ourselves. We visited the three madrassas and made some pictures. I like the Ulug-Beg madrassa best. He was the grandson of Timur the great, and was also a mathematician and astronomer. Fields I also like.

After an hour or so our contact told us we had to leave, so we did. We went back to the hostel for breakfast.

The girls and Larisa went back to bed, but I stayed down sitting at the breakfast table and talking to people as they got up.

I talked to Ludo and Gane. Later Brent, the canadian, came down, and he told he went through the Anzob tunnel. I was all ears now. He didn’t drive himself but went through it with a taxi. His friend Matt was sitting in the front so he would have more details. After half an hour or so Matt also came down and he told me about the tunnel what he knew. It was dark, there was water, … They just confirmed what I already knew. The stress levels for the tunnel of death kept high 🙂

We didn’t do too much today. I worked a bit on my laptop and Larisa rested. In the evening we were ready for some diner. Our friend Sasha had told us about a good place called Karimbek, so we went there.

When we arrived we saw the belgian girls again 🙂 So we sat together and had a good meal. We talked about Uzbekistan, and we all realised we would soon have to leave the country. Too bad, as it was really a beautiful country and has been a nice experience.

We also said goodbye as we were leaving for Tashkent the next day.