Food & Drink
A Regional Food Map of Uzbekistan
Which Uzbek dish belongs to which province: Khorezm's dill noodles, Bukhara's green plov, Fergana's devzira rice and Tashkent's cold noodles, mapped.
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Travel Tips
Uzbekistan Facts the Guidebooks Get Wrong
Our running list of Uzbekistan facts that circulate widely and are wrong: minaret heights, ticket inclusions, UNESCO claims, dates and a few outright myths.
Culture & History
Which Uzbek Mosques Are Working, and Where You Can Go
A register of Uzbekistan's mosques: which are still working, which are museums, where non-Muslims may enter, and what changes at prayer times.
Culture & History
What the Registan's Inscriptions Actually Say
The blue bands on Samarkand's portals are text, not pattern. What they say, the scripts they use, and the 20-volume project that translated them.
Culture & History
Restored or Original? An Uzbekistan Monument Audit
How much of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva is genuine medieval fabric and how much is Soviet reconstruction. A building-by-building audit, told straight.
Culture & History
Why Shakhrisabz Is on UNESCO's Danger List
Shakhrisabz lost its medieval quarters to a tourism programme and has been on UNESCO's Danger List since 2016. What happened, and what you see there now.
Getting Around
Uzbekistan Train Tickets: Refunds and Cancellations
What it costs to cancel an Uzbek train ticket: the refund tiers, the two fees always deducted, how long the money takes, and why the 6-hour mark matters.
Travel Tips
Uzbekistan Monument Entry Fees: A Price Tracker
What Uzbekistan's monuments actually cost in 2026, how fast the fees have risen since 2021, and a realistic ticket budget for a two-week Silk Road trip.
Travel Tips
How Uzbekistan's Museum-Reserve Ticketing Works
Why Khiva sells one ticket for its old-town museums and Bukhara sells none, plus which museums close which day: the museum-reserve logic behind Uzbek tickets.
Destinations
Urgench: The City You Fly Into
Urgench, the gateway to Khiva: the airport, the trains, the trolleybus, what there is to see, and the honest case for staying a night rather than leaving.