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1: After a long flight to Tashkent Airport, after getting off the plane, I walked a long way to the immigration customs, and went to the queue of foreign citizens to queue up.
The airport can exchange currency according to their own needs, Tashkent Airport can also exchange local money, as for how much to change depends on yourself, if the spending power is strong, change more, if you just come to travel poorly then you can change less.
2: When I first arrived in Uzbekistan, a casual smile, a small gesture, can make people happy all day, Samarkand's high-speed rail to Bukhara, after leaving the railway station, take bus No. 37 to the ancient city of Bukhara, because of the language barrier, can not communicate, on the No. 37 bus, there are more people and there is no place to sit, I can only stand and grab the handrail, backpacks and small boxes can only be placed on the platform behind the driver, as long as the bus brakes then the bags and boxes will fall off the platform.
But I found that an Uzbek sister wearing gray plaid clothes, has been protecting my backpack with her hands is really beautiful, there is a vacant seat immediately reminded me to sit, with my hands to protect my bag throughout the whole process, after getting off the car I and this sister continue to thank you, Bukhara should be the most friendly city in the city I have stayed in so far, everyone is very friendly.
After arriving in Bukhara, I felt that the people here were quite enthusiastic, just like the enthusiastic sister I met on the bus, just like the Uzbek girl in the picture below, standing at the door of her house and trying to greet me, but she was not too embarrassed and a little shy.
After a while, the little girl's mother came out, she was married to Uzbekistan by a Russian, there were 4 children at home, 3 daughters and a son, I understood what her mother meant, that is, let the little daughter be brave, it was okay to say hello to foreign tourists, and finally I taught her to say in Chinese: Hello, thank you, when I was leaving, the little girl's mother said to me: Иностранные друзья, оставайтесь на (Foreign friends stay and leave after dinner), because I am in a hurry to find a place to live, I am afraid that there will be no place to sleep at night, and I don't want to trouble people, so I politely refused.
When I was looking for a homestay in Bukhara, there would be people to greet you from time to time when I walked on the road, especially the children here are generous, I like this feeling, very warm, the little boy told me that today he followed the adults to greet the family, and then he had to invite me to see their wedding band, I really haven't seen what the Uzbek wedding band looks like, with a sense of curiosity to follow to see.
Their wedding ceremony is very interesting, to take their own porcelain bowl and dowry (should be called), at nightfall to gather a brigade to go to the bride's house, the band blows each other to represent the festivities, this long instrument, there is a sense of déjà vu, because I have been to Bhutan, where the lamas play the same musical instruments as Uzbekistan, Bhutan borders the Tibetan region of the mainland, and many customs are the same as Tibet.
In fact, the Uzbek people are very good, after watching their performances, the host also brought me some candy, something similar to candy stuffed into my pocket, hoping to bring me good luck, this strange enthusiasm, but also really feel the warmth of people from a foreign land.
3: After coming to Bukhara, I arranged a place for myself, came out to hang out at night, and found that the elderly group was significantly more than the previous cities, but there were not many young people who came here to travel, it may be that the elderly prefer the city with a sense of history, and met the elderly from the United Kingdom, and later met the tour groups from France and Japan in the homestay where they lived, and the countries of Central Asia felt that it had become a new Internet celebrity travel destination in Japan and South Korea, and also met the Japanese tour group at the station and attractions.
International tour groups honestly feel no different from the country, eat group meals, stay in hotels are also economical, tourist buses pick up tourists to visit in the morning and evening, but the age of the elderly is really past the age of antiquity, still fly in and out, travel regardless of age, youth is always on the road.
4: The price of things sold in Bukhara supermarket is also good, ordinary cola is basically maintained at about 4 yuan (6984 sums), milk 5 yuan (8731 sum), ordinary biscuits take Oreo as an example: the price of a small 120g is 8 yuan (13969 sums), the price of a large Oreo 220g is 15 yuan (26193 sums), and the price of fruits is about the same as that of domestic 2 and 3 line fruits except for some particularly cheap ones.
Like the picture below, the price of a kilogram of sun-dried Uzbek dates is 139,900 sums, which is 80 yuan, that is, 40 yuan a catty, and the local people in Iran actually like to eat dates, especially female friends, the price of Uzbek oranges is 33,990 sums (19 yuan) a kilogram, which is 9 yuan 5 yuan a catty.
Uzbekistan's Tashkent bus fare is 8 cents (1400 sums), Bukhara buses cost 8 cents and 5 cents (1500 sums), Samarkand buses are slightly more expensive, the fare is 1 yuan and 1 cents (2000 sums), the buses will have a ticket collector responsible for collecting money, and except for Tashkent, it is basically private, the departure interval is not very accurate and the map has no route guidance.
If you eat in Uzbekistan, a 25cm small pizza is about 20 yuan (34924 sums), if you have meat in a meal, you can eat it within 25 yuan (43656 sums), and if you don't have meat, 18 yuan (31432 sums) can be solved, except for Samarkand, where it will be cheaper, the cost of meals in other cities is basically the same.
5: I also saw a young handsome young man at a local roadside stall, made a pot of pilaf, so I sat down and ordered pilaf, salad, naan, baked buns, yogurt, and cola (it seems to be the standard for ordering, the others are fine, and the naan is also very easy to eat, and the yogurt is the first time to try, and the taste of the grass in it can't be described.)
So, the others are eaten very clean, the yogurt does not dare to move, we eat slowly, the restaurant has come in a lot of local guests, I have to say that this pilaf is really delicious, but also hungry, the mutton inside is very delicious, eat a meal at noon, to the evening do not want to eat, after eating a pilaf, the boss asked me if I want to add a little, add rice without money, too polite, a part I have eaten very full.
6: When I took the local subway in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, I found a problem, many local women will wear a headscarf, for example, the following young lady is wearing a light green skirt, and the colorful headscarf on her head is waiting for the bus while playing with her mobile phone, and which young lady wearing a black headscarf to make a phone call in the distance is very good-looking.
And some local women don't wear headscarves, for example, the Uzbek lady with dyed yellow hair and wearing a black skirt doesn't wear a headscarf, and the Uzbek sister wearing pink clothes on the side doesn't wear either, so I don't understand whether you need to wear a headscarf or not in the local area?
7: In a local big bazaar market, I saw that there are places that sell fruits, and there are places for selling food, this market is very large, similar to the market in Xinjiang, and the items are complete, and then I walked to a fruit stall and saw a bunch of watermelons, one of which has been cut, probably just to show tourists, watermelons are sold very cheaply, about 10 yuan can buy one back.
Then some people say that the watermelons sold in this bazaar market are not clean, that there are so many bees on the watermelons, which makes people eat it, in fact, I want to say that on the contrary, the local watermelons have bees on them, which means that they are clean and fresh, and if they are bad or bad fruits, then the bees will not fly up to collect honey.
And what kind of fruit is this sold by the following aunt, because I have never seen this kind of small fruit, so I have never dared to buy some, do you know friends?
8: We hired a female translator in Tashkent, when I asked her to be a translator, she could speak fluent Chinese locally, because she wanted to have a deeper understanding of the local customs of Uzbekistan, and then the translator we asked her was actually from Tashkent Donggan Village, because she didn't want to appear on camera, so we also respected her wishes and did not take pictures of her, in fact, before I came to Uzbekistan, I heard that the people of Dungan Village are actually Shaanxi, can speak Chinese and speak Russian and Uzbek, she saw that I was very interested, and then invited us to her house as guests, she has 2 children in her family, a boy and a girl.
Don't look at the children's young age, not only Chinese is good, Uzbek is also very good, but I don't understand these local languages, just look at the proper Chinese face, their children take half a day of classes, the afternoon is basically free time, a little money families will send their children to China to study, for China to build a good bridge in the overseas market.
In addition to interpreting for tourists, she also grows a lot of mushrooms at home, and when the harvest season comes, Russians will come to buy these mushrooms, and the price is quite high, and they will not be sold in the Grand Bazaar market, which also has an extra income.
There are more than 100 families in their village, who came to live here more than 100 years ago, and the village has always retained the tradition that people in the village can only marry the people of this village, and the village is basically from Shaanxi, and her father and mother are still cousins and cousins.
The people in the village are very enthusiastic, to be honest, I just wanted to come to see it simply, but the hospitality is difficult to entertain us at night to eat the meal is really rich, all the delicious and delicious food at home are taken out, this sincerity you can clearly feel, when I eat on the table, there are dishes on the table, until I am full, their kitchen has not been extinguished, parents have been busy in it, let them not come out to eat some food in the busy, but were refused, like we invite relatives and friends to eat at home, generally the meal is ready, everyone sits together to eat, the dish is finished eating, and they are constantly stir-frying, I'm afraid you didn't eat well, the best meal to eat in Uzbekistan is here, and it doesn't cost money, it's basically Chinese food, this custom doesn't seem to have changed much, the only thing that has changed is that some local sacs are added to the meal, pilaf and other foods, if I have the opportunity in the future, I want to go again.