Uzbekistan

Backpackers are quite well-served in Tashkent, Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva. Numerous good value Bed and Breakfast hotels have sprung up in these places offering a range of rooms starting from a few dollars a night up to about 30 USD. In other places you will be restricted to grotty state-run hotels which charge higher prices for foreigners for rooms that have remained uncleaned since the Russian revolution.

If your Uzbek or Russian is up to it you may be able to rent a room or apartment fairly cheaply. However, this may result in your attracting the unwanted attention of the SNB, the successor organization to the KGB. This will usually involve the family who rented you the room having to pay a fine. That wouldn’t be a nice way to pay back hospitality would it?

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