hi my name is Anna Markarova you ever ate sausages with bread and water
and slept at the border control i have it's been two weeks since we arrived in Uzbekistan
for now we can't go anywhere else because all the neighboring countries are closed we cannot
enter Tajikistan because the land border is closed and Kazakhstan is on a total lockdown
it's been exactly one month since we arrived to Uzbekistan today is my last day and tomorrow
hopefully i will successfully cross the border with Tajikistan right now
is an exciting day it's four in the morning we're going to the train station in a normal situation
not that exciting just crossing another border and go with situations always a challenge whether
they let you in or not whether the water is open or not so let's figure it out and let's go home
okay take our second vehicle for today the train and hopefully we can sleep a little bit and train
because we haven't slept today yet and now it's 4 24 and we're going to Samarkand first stop
backpackers live
and hopefully we can sleep a little bit on a train because we haven't slept today yet
good morning we took a nap on a train at 8 55 where past our city i don't know what
we're gonna do next oh my god we need to get out of the train and find a way to go back
to the city where we needed to go together like two hours ago it's gonna take one hour
by taxi to get back to summer camp and then from summer camp the second taxi to the border
i had a wonderful sleep when i woke up i think i slept a bit too good and then i thought to myself
well welcome to vehicle number three after a good sleep and a train two good sleeping train
now we're going summer camp 35 000 each seven dollars to get back to fix our mistake nobody even
woke us up they didn't even announce the train station i didn't even think about setting an
alarm now we have to take one taxi to summer khan and then from summer camp the second
taxi to the border ah this is like really crazy but funny though we had a nice nap
so i just asked for the bus and they said there was one bus in the morning and the next bus
is tomorrow so that's why people are using shared taxis and now we're waiting for two more
passengers to go our knife costed us four hours and now we are on the way to samarkand finally
started and it's amazing landscape beautiful mountains
it's the sun is up it's noon now we're switching one taxi to another
the next taxi hopefully will just take us to
and now we make our way to the border and then we cross the border into tajikistan
it was a crazy day yes it was so crazy today insane they sent us back three four five times but
we didn't give up we were prepared oh it was five hours on the heat in a crazy system of tajikistan
hey guys i'm finally well rested and i'm ready to tell you the crazy story that happened yesterday
so we were crossing the border between uzbekistan and tajikistan and now is the kobe times but i
knew that there are people who cross the border and everything should be fine so we arrived there
and we had our coffee test we had uh jesse had visa i didn't need visa we had our passport and
i also was smart enough to prepare had i booked the ticket like i have a flight from dushanbe
capital of tajikistan to dubai so they don't have any reason to send me back so we arrived
to the board to go through exit stem from uzbekistan was easy but when we arrived to
the entry to the passport control of tajikistan then the problem began so they saw that we are
internationals we are not just back we are not tajik so we don't have any reason to enter the
country because of pandemic but i know that it is possible because i knew that there are people
who cross the border and everything should be fine so then we entered the passport control
there was a huge queue local people who also could not enter and then the guy the passport
control told me sorry you cannot enter go back to uzbekistan i'm like wait wait wait no no i'm not
going back to uzbekistan i have all the necessary documents and i have a flight tonight from
tajikistan to dubai and they say okay let me go to the boss then he goes to the boss boss says no
you are not tajik you cannot enter go back i'm like no no call him again tell him this isn't that
that my tickets are not returnable they are but they are not they said no go back and i said okay
can i talk to someone who makes decisions here they said yes you can and they brought me to the
office to the boss of passport control but before we enter there were a lot of people local people
who put money in their passport and they would give to the officer and then they would get the
stamp and go and i was like what and then on the way to the passport control one local guy told me
just gave them 500 rubles and they will let you go i'm like what at the passport control giving money
like i never seen anything like that and i'm even scary to give money because this is like for me in
my mentality bribing someone and at the border i don't know i don't want to get to the jail
you know for doing that and i'm like this is so scary like why that would even be a thing and then
everybody was giving money and they would pass but the problem was we didn't have any cash we
ran out of cash we had zero in our wallet we only had credit card but there is no atm so we cannot
cash out so we don't have money to pass and that's the only way to pass and then i'm like oh my god
what are we gonna do so i entered the office and i started explaining the whole situation that we
cannot go back we need to go to tajikistan we have all the necessary documents we have coffee
tests we have tickets passports everything visas because yeah do you understand that only students
can cross and and their citizens you cannot your international like yeah i know but a week ago my
canadian friend could cross the border i also need to cross and i have this flight ticket okay wait i
will call to my boss so there is a higher bus then he goes to the higher boys i'm waiting for one
hour two hours three hours it's a mid day sunday's uh plus 40. it's very hot and there are a lot of
flights in the office like people were entering he would open the passport take the money and then
step to stand the passport like we saw all of that happening at the border this was something crazy
i've never seen before and i will forever remember that border but the man was very nice but in the
meantime it was very funny we were in his office all the time then he offered us some bread some
sausages then he gave us water he was very nice man after waiting for five hours five hours and
then i was just sitting like this at the couch and i was just falling asleep because we didn't sleep
the night and five hours and the heat he finally started filling in our application our passport he
was insane and at the end finally after one hour fill in our form we got our stamps and then we
went out and then they were annoying taxi drivers who overcharged us of course and we couldn't make
it to the capitol we stayed in the city around with a beautiful mountain view right behind there
and so we decided to spend a few days here then visit mountains reverse nature and then have to
do chamber to the capital it's amazing bungee can is very beautiful surrounded by mountains
and the best part is when we go to dushanbe tomorrow we're just gonna cross mountains and
mountains it's very hard to find food without meat in uzbekistan and tajikistan both because
when you ask for something without meat they say white without meat no we don't do it without them
only fries
yes i found some vegetarian
listen so we just bought this thing with potato let's see how many how much potato they put inside
i like food in uzbekistan more so this is potato
and this it few sparkles throwing this away okay they finally brought me food without meat
bread with bread bon appetit this is what they do here when they want to give you a change
so organized so i just got another change and this is five simoni and for some reason they
call someone you ruby they say five rubles also i bought mint essence of me oh the this smells so
strong smelly i will mix it one to one with water and then it's gonna refresh if you put it here and
at the tip of your head and then just after the shower spray on your skin then it will help you to
to battle the heat yes you will feel fresh it will refresh you you won't feel so hot anymore
so right now we're on a mission to find good internet here in tajikistan in uzbekistan so far
it was bought unlimited internet for a month for 15 and in kyrgyzstan it was like three dollars and
the further we go the more expensive and more complicated internet gets so now we have like
this d cell option there is no company that has unlimited internet everything is limited and it's
45 dollars for 50 gigabytes per month as digital nomads we need a lot of internet internet is very
expensive here in compared to other central asian countries because tajikistan doesn't have its own
network they're buying internet from some other countries and then selling
to its citizens so we ended up buying uh t-cells new sim card with a special offer for new sim
cards for 180 18 20 gigabytes and unlimited use of youtube and instagram and whatsapp but we don't
use whatsapp we use telegram download telegram and yeah that's so far the best deal we could find in
all other companies anna where are we going next uh we don't know where we're going next wait
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