Hiking the Nuratau Mountains in Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 Experiencing Village Life at Uzbek Homestays

Traffic. Good morning. We're on our first hike. So we left the Kizilkum desert camp this morning and they drove us to Sop village from where we are hiking now for two hours to Sentiap village where we will spend the night tonight and also the afternoon. And these are our views. So we arrived in Sentiap village, the first village where we're gonna spend the night. And this is our room for tonight. Very basic. Each our own bed. But the property is super cute. We already had lunch when we arrived with other people. And yeah they have a whole garden. We have nice views of the surrounding mountains. Really beautiful. We've been spending most of our afternoon here underneath the tree. Just like breathing, chilling. It's been nice after so much like sightseeing to just have an afternoon to relax in the greenery. Just what I hoped for actually in Uzbekistan. Like a homestay, guest house with a serene garden just to sit in the shadow a little bit laid back. They also grow their own vegetables. We have some aubergine and some red bell peppers. I saw the host getting some earlier. So I guess we're getting something for dinner including these vegetables. Exciting. So we're exploring the village of Sentiap a little bit now. We spend our afternoon at our guest house. Just chilling. It's a beautiful place. Very serene. Has a nice lush garden. Just like how I imagined spending a few days on the countryside in Uzbekistan. Trees, a lot of like their growing vegetables. And we were just having like a nice time in the garden under a tree reading a little bit. Also super sunny as you can tell. And I forgot my glasses. So I can't see anything what I'm doing. I hope it's okay the shot. I hope you can see us. And we're going back up to the viewpoint right now which we passed when we came into town with our let's call him guide. He was actually our driver. But he turned guide since the actual guide didn't show up. Which sometimes happens here apparently. The plans change all the time. Everything is very flexible. Things don't always turn out the way they were supposed to. But we're used to that. So no problem here. And we get where we're supposed to be. And the places so far on our little Nuratul trip have been super beautiful. And this village is just like exactly where we wanted it to be. Also we didn't really need a guide to be honest. The direction we went and the path we walked to get here is kind of clear. It was quite straightforward. Other than a few few spots where you have to think where to go next. If they just indicate like two or three places here. You could do that by yourself in my opinion. True. And here we are at the viewpoint. So I found myself a little bit out of shadow here. Which is kind of an abandoned house. Or like partially destroyed house here. Ralf and Rikke is taking some more pictures of the beauty around us here. So tomorrow we are also going to go on a hike. It's going to be a little bit longer. This one took around one and a half two hours. If you go like slower. And tomorrow supposedly up to four hours. Which is okay I would say. We do have other people with us. There's like a Swiss couple who joined us. They were also at the yurt camp. We saw them at Ruslan's at his guest house. And they're basically doing the same tour as us. So Ruslan asked if he care if they can join us. Which is no problem for us. And yeah tomorrow after breakfast we're off again to the next place. Hopefully just as beautiful, pristine and picturesque indeed as here. Very nice so far. We really like it here. People are very friendly as well. So we're gonna just wander a little bit more. Then it's almost time for dinner I guess. And we'll head into our room after that. And just chill for a bit. So yeah see you then. You're such a pretty face. What is she doing? So here's usually a river. We were told that in spring when the snow starts to melt from the mountains. It starts coming down. And this whole yeah where we're standing. This riverbed is fully filled. But yeah since we're in September it's dry. So we can walk here. Pretty cool.