Uzbekistan is one of 54 countries that the Silk Road passed through and coincidentally it also passed through Georgia. Your video opened the door of awareness of an Asian country that was not much more than a name on a map so I’ll say that the most interesting parts of your video is the historical information. It’s unlikely that I’d travel to Uzbekistan at this time.
I really liked Samarkand with all the beautiful designs on all buildings. Very nice. I also enjoyed your whole video as it gave me a look at a country I would never visit and had no familiarity with.
As someone raised in a nordic country, it is very interesting and informative watching a video like this. Rarely get to see different cultures like this up close and it is great you can provide such content. Especially loved the architecture of many of the buildings. Keep them coming!
The country looks to be part dazzling and part dreary. I would never eat horse meat. Interesting place, but I have no wish to go there. Thanks for showing us around.
Thanks for sharing your travels with us. I enjoyed your video and I liked especially your personal experiences, for example with the guides you met. You're making the best of your situation, keep it up. I'd like to travel more in central Asia, so Uzbekistan is somewhere on my list. Best regards to Dasha, Slava and you.
Can you guys please please please go to Tajikistan because I have seen some really good video about Tajikistan recently and I am not sure if I should trust them or they are covertly promotional and if true I'd love to go visit Tajikistan myself as they seem very friendly and the country is beautiful specially the nature.
I am a Turkish citizen in Istanbul. There are many Uzbeks now working in Turkey. Mostly females as caretaking ladies in peoples homes. Very honest and dependable people. Our long lost relatives ! Interesting video; Uzbeks are Turkic nationals; of non Chinese Asian races of Central Asia (mixed maybe by Moghuls due the historic conquest of Genghiz invasions etc.) Religion is (was) predominantly Islam. Actually Semerkand and Bukhara were famous religious universities … before the Russian annexation and then the Soviet era Communism. Therefore a very mixed up culture and historically Arabic, Cyrillic and now Latin alphabets ! They are a lot mixed up. One wonders what this country will finally evolve into ? Anyway it is an interesting snapshot of a culturally rich and economically poor nation. All the best. Thank u Natasha for your efforts and goodwill..
Excellently written, filmed and researched, with very thoughtful commentary that ranges from the little daily-life details to Uzbekistan's historical context. This video is truly taking the channel to the next level. Congratulations!
Yeah, but can someone explain the reason for painting trees white at the bottom? This seems to be a common idea in eastern Europe that has made its way to central Asia
@@rogink Painting the bottom of tree to white is something that started in soviet union, and I think it is to repel harmfull to tree insects (although i am not sure whether it is needed or whether it works)
@@rogink Google is your friend. "White paint on trees offers protection from the sun, harsh weather, and pests." This practice is carried out all over the world.
Hello from Uzbekistan Thank you so much for showing Uzbekistan to world❤❤❤ by the way I am from Uzbekistan and also I am proud of leving in Uzbekistan and visit more 👍
Odam bolasi ikki narsani yomon qayerdi, o'limni xush ko'rmaydi. Vaholanki, o'lim uchun fitnadan yaxshiroqdir. Mol-dunyosi kamarini yomon ko'radi, holbuki, mol-mulkining o'zligi (qiyomatda suhbat uchun)
I already know many Americans would be horrified by that milk product she showed us. I just know there’s similar goods in Germany. At least when I was growing up there were.
Your videos truly keep getting better! There's not enough educational travel videos on the regions you cover, especially not from the perspective of someone from the outskirts of Russia. I love that you cover culture, cuisine, what you like.. some problematic encounters and that you're always honest and not holding back on what it's like to experience travel as a woman sometimes... I genuinely love your content and I've been following you since your early videos. Keep it up Natasha!🤘
Natasha you are becoming quite a world traveler and it's such a joy to see you and your friends Alena and Dasha traveling around and putting up these videos. You all look so good too! 😘 Greetings from 🇺🇸 .
This video shows a really professional evolution of your content while still maintaining your charismatic personality, and love your social commentary…very much enjoyed this one, Natasha. Keep showing us the world from your eyes!
Hi Natasha and Dasha, thank you for sharing your trip. It was beautifully done, quite idiosyncratic, which gave it great charm. I knew I would love it when you went into the supermarket! Your bookshop adventure was also interesting. Really appreciated your attention to details. I'll watch it again and take some notes. Happy travels and stay safe
I love your travel vlogs like this! Your commentary with historical references, linguistics references, ethnic diversity, and honest opinions/feelings/thoughts on what you observe/taste in a foreign country are very interesting and informative. Your sense of humor and sarcasm compliment to the vlog very nicely as well lol I love going to grocery stores more than souvenir shops when I visit a foreign country to see what local people buy there and how the prices are different from where I live. Keep it up! - hello from a viewer in Japan 🇯🇵
Hello Natasha. Trust me I am not a person praising others too often, but let me tell you I admire and adore your activity. You are a human in the best sense. You give hope to us, we can believe that not all Russians are war criminals or silent accomplices. Keep up the great work.
Natasha, you are the BEST guide possible. Your videos are so very interesting, and add a great deal to my old life. In the US coke and Pepsi are usually in 12 ounce containers (a cup and a half). Both are made with phosphoric acid which is terribly nasty, and should not be consumed by anyone. To make this attractive, coke adds 9 teaspoons of sugar; Pepsi adds 10. Thanks for this adventure !
Natasha's video was well worth the wait for it's epic length. I had to break it into two viewings, but was impressed with Natasha's openness and humility. No better way to educate yourself than through travel. Would love to see a "long stay" format to get a deeper look into former Soviet republics. 👍
please more of these quick deep dives into the history of the languages! you explain it so well. love your videos. i would have never learned anything about the languages or history of the regions you've been to if i didn't watch your videos
Dear Natasha , I just wanted to tell you that I think you're just about th sweetest and cutest girl that I ever saw ! Please be careful and always vigilant in your travels. I look forward to your next segment ! I really enjoy watching your videos. Alan
Hi Natasha, I am from Washington, DC, USA, and in August, I am going to live in Tashkent for five (5) years. I watch all of your videos and I really like seeing your experiences and hearing your opinions. Thank you for showing Tashkent and Uzbekistan. One thing for sure however, no horse meat for me. I hope you and Dari keep on traveling. Have fun and I will keep watching you. All the best wishes to you.
There are always many Uzbeki artists at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Great artists. Great folk. Great history. I hope to visit some day.
My wife and I were in Uzbekistan in 2008. We were in Xiva, Bukhara and Samarkand but not in Tashkent. It was very interesting and the people there were all very friendly. I recognized many of the places you visited. Like the stores with the beautiful hand-embroidered fabrics (we bought a coverlet for a bed) at Registan Square and also the market with the many different vegetables and nuts. Surprising for us was that the Uzbeks although they are Muslims, always drank vodka after the meal, we of course also. Don't know if this is still the case now, but at that time cotton oil was used in many dishes, which not everyone can tolerate. Therefore, the vodka was almost like a medicine. Drink it very rarely, but if then Coca Cola and that with a lot of lemon juice.
@@macaroon147 Its unknown to the rest of the world. Look at the Library, its 99% in Russian and 1% in Uzbek. Uzbek is even Unknown in a written language in its own country.
Natasha, you and your partner's vlogs are thoughtful and unpretentious. Clearly, you are in a very precarious position. I wish you only the best with the hope that someday you can acquire an 'international' passport that enables you to visit and maybe settle where your heart feels supported. And, thank you for this view of central Asia that, I'm sure, many of us would never have seen! Your personal diaspora enriches us.
Wonderful video. I like the way you make the videos and put everything in from broken down areas to fabulously beautiful ones. It makes me feel that I’m actually there. Keep them coming! HD
Tandoori ovens are used also in India, where it has the same name. You can get a tandoori bread or tandoori chicken in almost every indian restaurant in Europe.
Really loved this vlog - think it is one of you best. The filming and sound quality has definitely improved. Very interesting to see the various parts of this country. Thank you for taking us along. My favorite... Pepsi all the way :) :)
Hi Natasha & Dari!🎉 Wow! Your 🇺🇿 video is your most adventurous, yet. Exotic rich culture, conflict driven history, dehumanizing migrant myths ..etc… I also noticed corpora-tocracy. PepsiCo owns KFC & Lays Potato Chips, Nestle owns Nescafé, Coca Cola owns everything else. I’ll stop rambling 😂, 👍🏽up video, hope to see the next one, soon.
I don't like either Pepsi or Coke. Cold water is the nicest refreshment or iced tea I've made myself is good too. Your travels in Uzbekistan are fascinating! Safe travels to you and your friends!
the bazaar is making me so nostalgic ;_; thank you for introducing your audience to a little piece of central asia. it's one of the friendliest places I've ever traveled to and I hope more people get to experience it. it breaks my heart to think you probably shouldn't try and visit kyrgyzstan right now, but the stuff going on with the foreign agent law there is so scary. I have faith in the people to rise up against the corruption though, they've done it before.
Excellent!! I learn so much watching your channel. My favorite part is always how you look at the whole picture, you give us a tour of playgrounds markets and social makeup of the local people all the way to how the different governments treat the people. Thank you! I learn about the actual people from you, very educational and absolutely love your humor.
Greeting from Los Angeles California. This was an amazing video .Thank you for sharing your adventures and giving us a look at a country most of us would have never seen.
Hello, Natasha, I am from Quebec in Canada and I have been watching many of your videos for a while. I would like to congratulate you for the quality of your videos. They are so interesting. When I was 19, I moved to Iceland on my own to learn the language (Icelandic) and I learned Icelandic with many people from Russia. It was in the late 90's. I made friends so easily with Russian people. They were so nice to me. I found it very hard when the war began in Ukraine and so many people thought all Russian people thought like Poutine. I know it is not true. The Russian people I got to know then were about 20-25 years old like me in the late 90's and are now 45-50. So, I am confident that there are people in this age group that don't support Putin either. But as far as I know, all my friends are still in Iceland to this day. But I lost contact with many of them. Keep on the good work. You are very brave.
Thank you Natasha for taking me to Uzbekistan! As an American, I have been to 17 countries (one of them is Russia!) but i doubt i will ever go to Uzbekistan! So, Thank you, continue as you are doing! Oh! also the governor of USA state of Georgia will be visiting the country of Georgia very soon! Please do a report! for your show
Natasha, you're so lucky to be able to travel to so many destinations and see so many different people and places. I understand you're being displaced because of the war, but it's actually an opportunity gain and not in vain. 😅
Very interesting and thanks for discussing the language situation. It's so frustrating that most travel vloggers never discuss language politics/sociology. It's interesting and says a lot about the country, its power structure, history and identity - and, who knows, maye in 20 years it will be different and will be interesting to see what has changed. Your vlog therefore is an important historic document. Da iawn a diolch o Gymru - thanks from Wales. 🏴
I learned a lot from your video - even after watching Dari Step, RussianPlus and CoolVision. The three of you are very insightful and create excellent travel clogs.
Yes, I would love to visit Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. I have been to Kyrgystan, Kazakstan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan plus Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. Very good video. Very informative and well paced.
Thank you so much for this video! We travelled to these places from Moscow during Soviet times. The medreses are of course beautiful. The mosaics etc. Then the ladies emancipation movement was on its height there. I got to know some young ladies making sketches of them.Gulsara told me that they used an herb called UZMA to draw their eyebrows ...singular line above their eyes. Like that of Frida Kahlo.
I LOVED this video. Getting a glimpse into a different part of the world while Natasha adds her observations really delivered for me. Growing up in the last years of Cold War, contact between opposing sides was forbidden, although we were still curious about each other. Your videos offer a bridge to other places when everyone these days seem intent on rebuilding walls. I really like tours of foreign grocery stores.
I really enjoyed this video, as I do with all your videos. I love to see different parts of the world and different archictecture and art and cuisine and customs. I like that you occasionally include some history and geography. That part of the video where you are in an area that reminds you of Hogwarts was funny. You have a subdued sense of humor. I think it's cool that you and Slava and Dasha have become friends, I enjoy all your videos. As for coke and pepsi, I drank so much of them when I was growing up that I don't like them anymore. Now I mostly drink tea and coffee, However, if you can find hommade root beer, try it! It's much better than root beer in the grocery stores.
Said it before but thanks for taking us on your travels! In this video, you seem a bit more lighthearted than in a long time. That fact lifted my heart.
Thank you Natasha, it is a perfect video for just one week. Many subjects have been touched, like the language, the food, prices of foodstuffs, your skiing experience, but what I specially observe in all your videos is the “eye for details” like the gutter along the street, the colored doves, your connection between your own “ussr” experiences and the thing you notice in Uzbekistan. Your video reminded me in all kind of aspects to my experiences in Iran, because many of the traditions finding its origin in the Islam. Also this “non-fuguristic” (is this a correct English word?) art and its bright blue color are to be found all over the countries where Islam is dominant. Perfect job, pleasant voice-over and pretty good addition work. It shows that you have done a lot of research to make it what it is. Thanks for that.🙋🏻♂️
Hello Natasha. WoW, Uzbekistan is a very interesting country. You are lucky to be able to go there. I really enjoy seeing the old, ancient buildings, the turquoise tapestry, the hotel with the small rooms, the train stations, everything, I enjoyed it all. The ancient silk road is amazing. The painted pigeons had me fooled. The men stare at you because you are a attractive young woman, but it is considered not polite. I would have give the young boy your drink, and the begging woman a little money. So, you will never ski again?😂 Coca Cola or Pepsi? I prefer Pepsi, but don't drink it much. I drink coffee or water, mostly. A occasional wine cooler, or a beer. In moderation of course. Thank You. Also the food looked very appatising.✌️
4:45 "This metal seat was quite hard, preparing you for the harsh childhood in a post-Soviet country." haha!! This is why I subscribe to this channel. Your friends are nice, but I like you best when you are alone, exploring a place and sharing witty thoughts.
It helps instill the motivation in the children not to sit upon their behinds for long but get going instead. It's good for a few swinging. 『此地不留人, 自有留人處。』"If this place hasn't a place for a person, there will be a place for the person."
Thank you for sharing a part of the world I have never seen, it really is beautiful. Through sharing, we gain understanding and lose fear. Your video's bring people together. For me, Pepsi or Coke, it's doesn't matter. If I had to pick, it would be Dr. Pepper. 🙂
I agree with the wide variety of compliments about your videos, and I have to add that I appreciate your dry sense of humor (e.g., the hard metal swing seat preparing the children).
Thanks for teaching me about the geography, language and migration patterns of this region. I would never have learned that else where. I got a good laugh at the "art installation", the "f off merch" and many other comments you made. Very enlightening and entertaining as always. Keep the good vids/educating going! Soviet made subways are epic. Strange they chose to show their prestige deep in the ground. But i guess if ppl were going to shelter down there for a coming nuclear war you will want it to look nice!
Wow, I was thinking about how adventurous you were to visit here. I really enjoyed this trip. Looking so interesting. I am definitely glad that you didn't go by yourself. I liked that this area didn't have the heavy hand of the Soviet Architecture suppressing the art and expression of the local natives. I got the feeling that you enjoyed your visit! Thanks for your touring ! I'm looking forward to seeing you and your friends going on more adventures Natasha! Poka-poka!
Not a country I would have ever thought of visiting but you sold it to me, looks very interesting and beautiful architecture and culture, seems more like Turkey than Russia than I expected. Hopefully you will feel safe to visit neighbouring countries like Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan or Tajikistan eventually, we don't hear much about Central Asia in the UK.
Турки из Турции тоже родом из центральной Азии в прошлом. Жили здесь как кочевники после завоевания Константинополя стали оседлым народом. И по этому быт у них более европейский чем других тюркских народах. И знаете единственный кто завоевал всю Турция это эмир Тимур(тоже тюркского происхождения) Тогда в европе его(Тимура) назвали освободителем Европы так,как Баязыд(предводитель Турции) был на грани завоевать всю Европу. После этого в течении 100лет Турция не могла востановить свою былую мошь. Европейцы воспользовались этим,т вернули многие свои территории. Правда потом всё таки поднялась и звоевала много территории но упустила шанс завевать намного больше Европейской земли из-за словесной ссоры через писемь с Эмиром Темуром. То есть Тимур пошёл войной в Турцию чисто из-за принципа и запретил своим воинам разрушать страну. И монгольскую игу также остановил Тимур тоже из-за принципа так,как Тозтамыш ,тогдашний хан Моголии стал ханом при поддержке Тимура,но потом предал его.Ой что то я увлекся историей. Всего вам хорошего
Great video Natasha! Uzbekistan is really a wonderful country and you introduced it to us in a magnificent way. I am so happy that you enjoyed this one week-journey with two wonderful people like Dari and Slava. You should come to EU!!
Thanks for this great video Natasha! I'm Australian and have wanted to visit Uzbekistan ever since I met an Uzbek guy who was studying in my city here, back in 2013! Love your honesty, your humour and the historical facts you shared. It must be so useful being able to speak Russian as I think most Uzbeks speak it as a first or second language. I only know English and a small amount of words in Uzbek (and Turkish for that matter), I wonder how I would struggle. I am also sorry that the world has closed itself to you, that made me sad :( I hope things improve on that front, thinking of all Russians out there like yourself. We are in solidarity with you!
The names of some organs it's used as the suffix for nouns, “Ak”= ~each of both (Yan= side) (Gül= rose) (Şek=facet) (Dal=subsection, branch) (Taş=stone) Yan-ak= each of both sides of the face >Yanak=the cheek Kül-ak = each of both the roses >Kulak= Ear Şek-ak = each of both sides of the forehead >Şakak= temple Dal-ak=dalak= Spleen Böbür-ak=böbrek= Kidney = each of both red-spots / blodfleck Bağça-ak>(Paça-ak)>bacak= Leg (ankle) Batı-ak>pathiak>phatyak>hadyak>adyak)=Ayak= the foot > each of the feet (pati = paw) Taş-ak=testicle Her iki-ciğer.>Akciğer=the lung Tül-karn-ak =that obscures/ shadowing each of both dark/ covert periods= Karanlık (batıni) çağların her birini örten tül Zhu'l-karn-eyn=the (shader) owner of each of both times Dhu'al-chorn-ein=double-horned-one=(the horned hunter)Herne the hunter> Cernunnos> Karneios it's used as the suffix for verbs, “Ak /ek“=a-qa ~which thing to / what’s to… Er-mek = to get / to reach Bar-mak (Varmak)= to arrive / to achieve Er-en-mek > erinmek / Bar-an-mak > barınmak =arrive at one's own Erin-ek / barın-ak = what’s there to arrive at oneself Ernek / Barnak > Parmak = Finger Çiğ=uncooked, raw Çiğne-mek =to chew Çiğne-ek>Çiğneh> Çene = Chin Tut-mak = to hold / to keep Tut-ak=Dudak= Lip Tara-mak = to comb/ ~to rake Tara-ak > Tarak =(what’s there to comb)> the comb Tara-en-mak > taranmak = to comb oneself Taran-ak > Tırnak =(what’s there to comb oneself)> fingernail
Visiting former Soviet Republics is a great subject for your channel, Natasha. Please keep it up. My only suggestion would be to include more about how the people of these countries say life has changed since 1991.
14:12 reminds me of Yulia’s Ekaterinburg. You can see how decayed a city gets when you stray from the part where only the tourists are supposed to venture. That Potemkin village feeling is everywhere you go in the former Soviet Union.
Yes, the "fake village" type thing is extremely common in China as well. The facade may have even looked nice when they first opened (if not very out of place), but they become derelict after a couple of years due to a lack of care and maintenance.
