Friday, 26 June 2009

Welcome To Uzbekistan

DO NOT OBSTRUCT MONITOR

MONITOR ALARM SOUND YOU WILL BE SEARCHED

SEARCH MAY TAKE MORE THAN ONE HOUR!

This was the sign that greeted my arrival in Tashkent airport, capital city of the police state that is Uzbekistan, and the first stop in my three country trip.

Once the border guard had checked my documents, I uttered the only word I knew in Uzbek: ‘Rakhmad’ which means thank-you. In return the border guard ominously offered his only English phrase: ‘good luck’.

Am I to need it? Who knows.

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