After a 7 hour flight from Seoul, we arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan around 9:00 pm to make our way through immigration and customs. We read (were warned?) that once you get off the plane it could take 2 or 3 hours to get completely out of the terminal. The procedure is to deplane, board a bus, then drive to the terminal. When the doors to the bus open, people rush to the immigration windows which did indeed occur. Fun stuff!
After you make your way through immigration, you have to find a luggage cart. This was Jeanette's first opportunity to use her Russian. Well, her Russian and a little struggle with someone else who wanted one of the few carts available. Then we loaded our bags and headed through customs which was easy. In all, it took us just over an hour to get out, which we were later informed, was the low time for new teachers :)
We were picked up by Bekzod and Geoffroy who shuttled us to our hotel room and got us settled--phone sim-cards, internet access, maps and some money (Uzbek Som). We were not their last pick-up that evening so they headed back to the airport; they had someone to pick up at 3:00 am.
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