The fifth day in this picturesque country, we started traveling north towards Bokhara, a city that is about nine meters above sea level with a population of no more than a million inhabitants. This city is very popular with tourists because there are many circuits for hiking, or better known as trekking.
After six hours of traveling in the precarious and dizzying roads, we arrived at the hotel; we checked in and went out to do a city tour.
First we went to a waterfall and then to a cave. Very boring rides that had nothing exotic. Then we went to a lake between the mountains where we did a boat ride. This ride itself was filled with our expectation. We saw the sunset from the lake and we could see how it went orange staining of the giant snow-capped peaks on the horizon.
Near the lake is the commercial center of the city. Obviously it’s a small street with many small shops selling books, clothing for the mountain, and hundreds of sizes and colors and silk patinas. As it was too late, we only had time to walk a few blocks, and then we should return to the hotel for dinner.
Can not imagine what the hotel buffet was. Tasted after three months of travel, mashed potatoes! And you could put grated cheese! But of course I did not eat only pureed, there were also breaded fish! Obviously there were more things to eat, but these two things were chosen by a majority of those present, therefore, that the boys went for the chef, and standing, cheered as if it were an athlete.
The next day morning, we went back to the market to achieve make a purchase. I walk into a room where there was no one, not the owner. I’m looking patinas, and suddenly running the seller enters and begins to explain and show the different types and quality of the merchandise.
It goes without say that with the look of gringo that characterizes me, gave me the prices were really astronomical. And here’s where the art of bargaining began, which after two months in Asia, has become a specialty for me. With the same spiel that I am neither European nor gringo, I’m from Latin America, began to pull down the prices that I had misplaced.