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The shower I had when I got to Bukhara might have been my best shower ever. 

Then I walked around, looked at all the sights, really beautiful, walked around in a park, ate really good food, drank some liters of tea, climbed a water tower and ended the day by getting lost in the old town in the dark.

Next day, took of for Samarkand, checked out Registan and some mosques. Walked around. Nice day. Finally I got a shared taxi towards Tashkent. It was raining, the sun was setting into the hills, and I felt great. In the taxi was a Turkish man who offered my to sleep in his apartment and force-fed my apples until I felt really nauseous. It was also a nice economic student who spoke perfect English, we got along well, he loved Uzbekistan, never travelled anywhere and would never move away from there. I succeeded to turn down the offer of staying in the Turkish mans apartment without offending anyone.

Next day was the day from hell. It was raining heavily and I went to the Chinese embassy to be there 9 a clock when they opened. I put my name on the list (because I thoght they had some kind of cue system) and waited patiently with the other people there. 

Imagine a very flashy nightclub with a strict, Russian pointer. This was the "system" on the Chinese embassy. And the Russian guard hated my from the first moment. Bad luck. Anyway after one day in the rain, some begging, and lying, and faked documents I got my Chinese visa, 7 days for 80 dollar and a lot of upsetness. 

Next day I left for Andijon in the Fergana Valley. It was really beautiful views along the way, this is some oranges:

I also saw a dead guy laying on the road after a car accident. A bit terrible.

Arrived in the Kyrgyz border, walked over in 10 minutes, got a taxi to the bus station and found out there was a bus leaving in half an hour for Kashgar in China. I felt really stressed about catching my flight in a week from Islamabad and quickly decided to take the bus and skip Kyrgyzstan.