Miscellaneous: All what I added to the packing list on my Uzbekistan writings applies for Tashkent as well:
travel light, bring a daypack, something to cover your arms when visiting holy Uzbek places, sunscreen, solid shoes, Russian phrasebook and calculator. Maybe toilet paper from home :-).
Generally, Tashkent has so many of the usual shopping possibilities that you will find here almost everything you might have forgotten.
Written Feb 3, 2007
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Q: Hi! I read here that it is forbidden to make pictures from the metro in Tashkent, is that true?? I love the metro and always...

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Tashkent - full of life, color and so much charm

Tashkent is the city, you’ll most probably arrive and depart from if you plan to visit Uzbekistan. I was here in summer 2006, in the beginning and end of my trip through Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In...
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Just 40 years ago Tashkent was little more than a huge pile of rubble - the result of two major earthquakes and hundreds more tremors that destroyed the city almost completely. A tiny remnant of the...
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Tashkent is the capital of the Republic Uzbekistan, located at the foothills of TIanshan Mountains. Already in the times of the Big Silkroad Tashkent was a center of trade and cultural exchange. In a...
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A soviet-styled capital hiding some true charm

I have been in Uzbekistan for a little over a month, and spent most of my time in Tashkent. Tashkent is a huge soviet-styled city... No wonders when one knows that the 1966 earthquake has demolished...
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