I am starting to head west towards the Georgian border stopping at places along the way.

Most Central Asian town's have now replaced their statues of Soviet leaders with similar sized monuments to less domineering figures

Getting to a new destination is always part of the adventure of travelling.

Like this cat, I have observed Baku life and wandered its streets.

I was in complete culture shock last night on arriving in Azerbaijan. 

Back amongst the Turkmen people, I journeyed by train through the night to the western town of Turkmentbashi.

Today I discovered where some of the population hang out

The joy of having a 5 day transit visa rather than a tourist visa to Turkmenistan is that I am free to travel in the country without a guide and driver.

My visit to the Turkmenistan embassy in Tashkent was a great success.

I have spent the last few days in the Fergana valley, an area squeezed into the east of Uzbekistan next to the Kyrgyzstan border

I travelled from Bukhara to Samarkand by local bus passing field after field of cotton plant

Today is the first day back at school for many students in Uzbekistan

I am staying with a family in the old town of Khiva.

This weekend I travelled the golden road to Samarkand from Tashkent.

Another border was crossed today

Today is the end of Ramadam