I'm tired from having to get up early to catch a flight from Khiva to Tashkent today. Then I walked around Tashkent and found out about the glories of Amir Timur (Tamarlane). And now I have to pull an all-nighter waiting for a 4:50 am flight to Moscow/Yerevan.
One of our RAS buddies has warned me not to take an Airbus, but stick to Boeing planes because they have a better safety record. Well, I have thought about it, but realize that I don't really have all that much of a say in what kind of equipment the airline is flyimg. At any rate, what would he say about the Ilyushin IL14 prop jet I took today on Uzbekistan Airlines? Fact is, the whole thing went rather professionally, and I did not feel unsafe. There was a crying baby next to me, and at the end of the flight people did not cheer and applaud (as I have usually heard when flyhing Russian airplanes). So, things were very much like flying anywhere else. And much safer than any road I have been on in the past three weeks.
Anyway--not much to report here. Another touristy day. Here is a bird I found at a mosque. This is the head mosque for most of central Asia. The head Imam here is like an Archbishop of the region. It was a very nice place.Clean, neat, fresh, and all that. Tomorrow I will be in a mostly Christian land, and in a way, with some few exceptions, the travel emphasis will shift away from desert Silk Road to Christian (Orthodox) monasteries......I am due for a change. I am so tired of brown and majollica.
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