Central Asia

October 2011

 

Date Time From To By Comments
04.10 12:45 Tel Aviv Kyiv Ukrainian International Airlines 3 hours, 450 USD
04.10 21:45 Kyiv Dubossary Coach 8 hours, 160 UAH
05.10 05:45 Dubossary Goian Taxi 20 min, 50 UAH
06.10 19:30 Goian Dubossary Private car 20 min
06.10 20:15 Dubossary Kyiv Coach 9 hours, 160 Rbl
07.10 19:35 Kyiv Almaty Ukrainian International Airlines 5 hours
09.10 09:15 Almaty Taraz Coach 10 hours, 1000 KZT
10.10 03:00 Taraz Samarkand Train 18 hours, 5600 KZT
13.10 12:00 Samarkand Bukhara Train 3 hours, 16000 UZS
16.10 11:00 Bukhara Khiva Shared taxi 8 hours, 25 USD
17.10 15:00 Khiva Urgench - Khiva Trolleybus 2*1.5 hours, 2*600 UZS
18.10 08:00 Khiva Karakalpak forts - Urgench Shared taxi 5 hours, 15 USD
18.10 15:45 Urgench Tashkent Train 20 hours, 67000 UZS
20.10 09:00 Tashkent Chernyaevka bus+minibus 0.5 + 1 hours, 1100 UZS
20.10 16:00 Zhibek Zholy Almaty Coach 15 hours, 2000 KZT
22.10 04:30 Almaty Kiev - Tel Aviv Ukrainian International Airlines 5+3 hours

Total:
Hotels: $167 or ~ $16.7/day
Bus and Train: $125 ~ $9/day
Food etc: $70 ~ $5/day
Museums: $48 ~ $3.4/day
Total in Central Asia: $410 (without presents and visas)

Air ticket $430
Insurance $72
Visas and bribes $188
Ukraine and Transnistria $100
Total: $1200

See the detailed report in Russian here