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Exquisite architecture and cheap eats: Why Khiva is worth a stop in Uzbekistan
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Khiva is one of Uzbekistan’s troika of Silk Road cities and is the most underrated.
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UZBEKISTAN – “Wait until we get to Khiva,” my Uzbek friend Otabek Saidov whispers whenever I gush over the country’s beautiful sights, as he takes my sister and me on a tour of the country.
Throughout an eight-day trip in March 2024 – which included capital city Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara – he would say we had yet to experience the country’s best. The 27-year-old, who was born and raised in Uzbekistan, is a front office manager at a hotel in Khiva.
