As late as 10 p.m. on a weekday, girls aged from five to 15 mill around outside the Street 77 restaurant in northwest Tashkent trying to sell packets of tissues and bracelets to passersby. “This one ...
It is 1 in the afternoon in Hayat, a hamlet of barely 20 homes tucked in the folds of the Nuratau Mountains in Central Uzbekistan. Lunch at the family-run Hayat Guesthouse is laid out in the open air, ...
Upon arriving in the freezing capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, my priorities were to get a local SIM card and book a cab to my hotel — tasks I assumed would be straightforward. Little did I know that ...
Next month marks a year since I moved to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. This land is seemingly not well-known to most ...