Uzbekistan - Travel by Bike | Cycling the World 34

Alright, we found something. It's a very nice mud brick building, let me show you. I think it's the place where the shepherds go with their sheep and the goats. Wow, pretty tight actually. So, here inside it's more cool than here under the roof. So, we're getting in there, have a little rest up. Okay, getting inside here. Let me see, maybe we can make a little bit more light. I don't know if you can see it here right now, but it's so much cooler than outside. Nice thermal mask going on here. Nice little house. Yeah, nice little house. Okay, let's have a nice rest up. Yeah. Hello. Hi, we are now deciding what we want to do. It's about 30 kilometers to the next town and we have to stock up with some food and some water and then we will decide if we stop for a camp spot before or after. Do you have an idea? Yeah. We still have some oatmeal and some pasta left, a little bit of vegetables, some fruits. But not too much breakfast. Yeah, not too much. And it's, yeah. This place actually is great. Over there it's raining, there's thunder in the sky over there. But also maybe stay here. We have, I think we have enough water, so that's also a possibility. Yeah, do we have enough water? Because it's still 30 kilometers, it's hot. Yeah, we have to be, well, just drink enough and... Healthy steps. We make very interesting meals these days. We have nothing left. Yesterday we made a kind of a cucumber, warm cucumber soup with beans, pasta and tomato sauce. It was actually quite delicious. You get really creative when you're out of food. It's pretty good, these leftover things for the oatmeal. Just like you said, with these peanuts, just like peanut butter through the oatmeal. We just went to a small little town to get some groceries. And I went to the market, the greens and vegetables market. They also sold some meat and spices. Man, what's such a cool place. All the colors. The women are dressing very colorful here in Uzbekistan. It was very nice. I was just walking around and I wanted to make some film shots, but sometimes it's a little bit difficult to just stick a camera in someone's face, you know. It's a challenge to get people really natural on camera and you don't want to make them feel ashamed or something like that, you know. But I was there and I was walking around. I just started filming a little bit. This is kind of the Uzbekistan that you will only see if you do something like a bike tour or maybe you walk. The town is very industrial. It's very gray and boring, but they have a very cool market in the center of town. You're really welcomed like a friend. So it was a very cool experience. And it's also kind of the fun of filming all this, you know. Sometimes this can also be a little bit exhausting, because if you're tired and there's something happening, something cool, you just have to get your camera, right. But it's also a way to connect. So if you're going to a market like this, for example, you're not gonna film someone if you don't connect first. So it's very nice that you have a little chat with the locals and have some Yeah, Eric doesn't really feel too well. So we saw a kind of a place where we could drink some chai and we're kind of optimistic. And we were looking at it and we saying to each other that might be a good place to sleep for tonight. So we just went to this family here and asked them can we maybe pitch our tent here. And they arranged this lovely room for us immediately without asking. It was all fine. We have a pretty funny room. So I feel a little bit better today and we want to go to Samarkand. We've just been asked to sleep here one more night. These people are so immensely friendly. We just knocked at the door yesterday and now we are almost part of the family. That's just wonderful. We just had breakfast. They gave us some rice porridge and some bread. So that's some good fuel for the day. And we're gonna head out and we're gonna see if we can get to Samarkand today. Here in Uzbekistan every third night you have to register. So we're now in a little town. There's a hotel and we need to sleep there. Maybe it's five star, maybe it's one star, we don't know. But we have to get the registration. The spring rains have begun here and we're now in this small restaurant. We're just shelter. What's the what's the word? Shelter. Shelter, yes. We need to shelter from the rain or we needed to shelter from the rain. So we're here now drinking a nice beer, having wonderful nuts. That sounds strange. We're having some some almonds, salted almonds. And from here we're gonna head out to the hotels. Approximately one kilometer down the road here. And then we're gonna see. We're gonna hassle Smiley Stern this time. Because she's gonna hassle and get us a nice room. That was a very good story. Hey guys, great that you made it to the end of the video. 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