The very name of Tashkent resonates with mysteries and conspiracy theories for India, connected with our erstwhile Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's death. The city had a bit of an obscure feeling as we landed on a Saturday early morning. In a congested airport terminal filled with a cacophony of languages from across the world, it took a bit of time to converse properly toning down the pace of speech and bridging the language barrier as we changed currencies, took a local SIM (e-SIM didnt work!) took a taxi and left for our hotel, in a quaint corner of Tashkent - Ateca Hotel Suites That spell of unfamiliarity was broken on the very next day morning as we met an Indian origin couple from Silicon valley in our hotel lobby. Our first day's guide Ruslan made us quite home with his confident communications and confident style taking us through the central monuments such as Amir Timur museum, Chorsu market and the iconic TV tower. Timur / Tamerlane is a nati...
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