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Catching a taxi

To get to the Karimbek Restaurant one evening we took a taxi, and as Samarkand is more spread out than the other Silk Road cities you may find that you have to do the same. You can hail a taxi on the street – we walked to Registan St from our hotel and got one almost immediately. If there’s a taxi sign on the roof you know it’s “for hire” – once we got in the driver simply reached up to the roof, removed the sign and stowed it on the front seat until it would be needed again.

Our ride to the restaurant cost 2,000 som, a price we agreed with the driver before setting off. On our return we chose a taxi from several parked outside the restaurant and were told the price to the Registan would be 2,500 som. Both times we in fact gave the driver 3,000 som, so the slightly greedier one got no more than his colleague! We were advised that no taxi journey within the city should cost more than this amount so it may be that we paid slightly over the going rate, but at those low prices we weren’t going to complain, and it is after all the drivers’ livelihood.

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