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Hi all,

My partner and I are deciding whether to go to Khiva or not. Our itinerary right now is to go by train in the following order (with a few days stop in each): Tashkent-->Samarqand-->Bukhara. My questions are:

1) Is there no train travel at al between Bukhara and Urgench? Is the only option from Samarqand?

2) And if we did go by train to Urgench, do we need transit visas for Turkmenistan since it looks like it crosses the border? I have a US passport but my partner is traveling on a South African passport.

3) Are we better off hiring a taxi from Bukhara to Urgench, and if so, about how much might that cost? And I've seen conflicting time frames: 5 hours to 8 hours.

4) Even though we want to do it all overland, we are now also considering going straight from Tashkent by flight to Urgench and then taxi to Khiva; then private taxi back to Bukhara and rail to Samarqand and back to Tashkent. 

Any tips/recommendations are welcome.

Thanks,

I didn't find the right solution from the internet.

References:

http://caravanistan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1706

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