Back in Korea, a video of what I have to look forward to now. Life in Korea continues at http://wingedeel.blo gspot.com . If anything is video worthy I'll put it up
The contrast between the countryside and the capital is amazing. The capital is clean (cleaner than Japan!) and has ultra-modern bits and Soviet apartment block bits mixed together. One of the weirdest places I have ever been to.
In the no man's land between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan..the Uzbek side was easy enough, I had to wait 4 hours to get through on the Turkmen side though...for reasons I can't get into here.
Merv is a huge site, mostly unexcavated, and we had it all to ourselves that day, in fact I did not see another tourist the entire time I was in the country...maybe that was because I was there in off season?
During the peak season, the town of Samarkand puts on this horrid light show. I find it disrespectful to the buildings and everyone involved with them. (It has to be pretty bad if I find it disrespectful). The buildings themselves are beautiful though.
Visiting the Registan during the day is far better than visiting it at night! Just remember to try to haggle on the ticket in, they usually knock off 30-40% right off the bat.
I think I picked a bad day to go, hilarious, but bad. The wind was so strong I couldn't get down from where I was, I had to sit in a puddle for about 5 minutes until the wind died down enough for me to crawl down.
![RTW Trip #24 Giant\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/o6Zy4sEQLcs/2.jpg "RTW Trip #24 Giant\")
