My grandfather was born in Uzbekistan and grew up in Toshkent. He always told me his stories about how he took a trip to the Aral Sea and went swimming there with his friends... what happened was really a disaster

Great video as usual! I like when Ivan says "Celsium" 🥰

@cipmars

2 ай бұрын

Me too, don't correct him!

@jean-pierrehugotin

2 ай бұрын

@@cipmars 👍

@ExcessCongruence

2 ай бұрын

@@cipmars get out of here with that bullshit take, wokey..if you don't correct = you don't learn; that's how we evolve as humans and get better.

@andrewsaxon4314

2 ай бұрын

@@ExcessCongruence everythings about "wokery" to you brain-poisoned fox-news watching facebook uncles isnt it? log off and go outside and think about why your kids don't talk to you any more

Great video. I'm British and lived in Uzbekistan for a year 2021-2 and travelled to most of the places in your video. It's a great country with the most friendly, gentle people. I miss Uzbekistan.

Tashkent is a beautiful city! Despite its size, it doesnt feel cramped, the Muslim buildings had amazing tile and mosaic work on the outside and even the sidewalks had nice brickwork done to make it look nice. Well maintained, clean.....what a beautiful place!

Hello!!! Oh, how I miss Uzbekistan. Thank you for this film. I enjoyed seeing familiar places! This is a great opportunity to virtually visit a country when it is not possible to travel. Greetings from Kyiv. Ukraine💛🤗

To see nothing but flat land all around is so depressing for me. I like hills. But, to be in the middle of nowhere at night, with 360° degree view of starry night with no light pollution...

Uzbekistan is a dream destination for me, thank you for sharing your travels!

lol 19:21 this inscription on the wreck

@astyanax905

2 ай бұрын

ah I was disappointed it didn't say ACAB like every other remote place. seeing it in an abandoned apartment in Norilsk was shocking haha

@ymishaus2266

2 ай бұрын

@@astyanax905 Gotta make your big political statement by painting it somewhere no one will ever see it. Fight the power and all that.

@nedward7

2 ай бұрын

based ship

@synrmusic

2 ай бұрын

yeah i did not expect it to show up in Uzbekistan's aral sea of all places

Tashkent metro is amazing, it's very cheap compared to let's say Prague, Sofia or Minsk metro (not even talking about Paris or London...), but some stations are like museums! A taxi driver explained to me that these Chevrolet are built in Uzbekistan, former President got a deal with Chevrolet and that's why there are so many of these.

Really amazing architecture all around. Nice to see they keep it preserved

man your channel is a real treasure chest

Ive always wanted to visit Uzbekistan, planning my trip for March 2024! Excited to get a sneak peek through this video

@foxstrangler

2 ай бұрын

Well worth the trip, you might suffer gut problems (I did) and if you are diabetic, the food has little sugar, so carry a bottle of coke with you. You can (could) only get chocolate at the duty free in the airport, but they sell boiled sugar sweets in the markets. If you like the bread, bring some home, it keeps well. Don't change much cash into Som, they like US Dollars. Very friendly people and it has opened up more since Karimov died. Plov is always a good meal - mutton, rice and vegetables/spices. Bottled water for everything, and you get a shot of vodka before meals (it kills the bugs) and it's very cheap.

@lemonov3031

2 ай бұрын

​@@foxstranglerdo Americans really can't exist without sugar Jesus Christ

@liam2384

2 ай бұрын

@@foxstrangler luckily i’m not diabetic but i like the sound of a shot before every meal, especially if i can say it’s for my health 😂

@TheDonOfNY

2 ай бұрын

google diabetes@@lemonov3031

@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty

Ай бұрын

@@lemonov3031 American here, it's all fun & games with sugar until you feel bloated and sick and looking fat. Natural sugars like honey are much healthier and tasty. I gave up saccharin and other fake sugars a while ago.

Wow so early! Love your videos! You do a great job in encompassing the post Soviet aftermath in Russia! And Uzbekistan in this video too

Ah, you are in one of my favorite countries. I was three weeks travelling all over Uzbekistan in 2018. I hope you will go down to the Termez part of the country where you can see many Buddhist sites and ancient mudbrick settlements. You can get to about 3 meters away from Afghanistan see over the Amu Darya river. Looking forward to your travels here.

Such a tasteful wonderful country

I grew up with a lot of Buhkarian Jews who left Uzbekistan in the early 90s when the USSR collapsed. I believe the majority of them moved to my hometown of Queens, NY (specifically Forest Hills and Rego Park). It was really cool to see their ancestral homeland!

Hahaha 19:22 our tourists were here 😂

Another great lesson in the geography of Uzbekistan. Well Done. Excellent camera, narration and edit. Thank you for taking us along. Enjoy your travels and be safe. Еще один замечательный урок по географии Узбекистана. Отличная работа. Отличная камера, повествование и монтаж. Спасибо, что взяли нас с собой. Наслаждайтесь своими путешествиями и будьте в безопасности.

HI VANYA. What a wonderful surprise on a Friday afternoon! Thanks man!

yes, thank you, I am glad

Thank you for sharing these videos. It is very important right now. You give people an insight into other cultures, and that brings the world closer together.

Woot! Credit to you for making all this content, always a pleasant surprise to get a notification

Fascinating, Ivan, as always!

You lead an amazing life. I miss backpacking. I di not do as much as you but it was an adventure to fill a lifetime.

I would love to visit Uzbekistan and their amazing cities, people and food. Amazing

Wow so beautiful never knew Uzbekistan is actually pretty nice

@malcolmabram2957

2 ай бұрын

There are many fascinating places in the world that escape the media spotlight. I remember chatting about Tajikistan to colleagues at work, and they thought I was making the name up to be amusing.

Thank you for your efforts!

Thanks! Good Luck on journeys!

Always a nice surprise to watch your content. Keep up the good work.

This is fascinating and beautiful video. One of my favorites. Thank you for making it and sharing it.

Another excellent video, good information n well done.

Stellar work! Even without the train hopping your videos are exciting and informative.

Your videos are always so interesting and also amazingly relaxing. You always bring me down, when a had a stressful time at work. Thanks a lot!

Thank you very much - wonderful virtual travel.

As always, excellent video!

thanks. great video. much appreciated.

Your videos are so beautiful. Thanks for posting these parts on KZread despite the censorship.

Great job Ivan very interesting

Thank you for showing us all this culture.

Some very interesting art & architecture. Keep exploring & improving!

Great job Vag!

What a great channel. I appreciate everything you have shown us. Tjanks from USA

love your videos! you have a very nice way of relaying history while appreciating the places you are at! this was an especially nice coincidence as I just came across the Madrasa in Buxara on geoguessr yesteray, and you showed so many!

my friend i just signed up for your Patreon as i've been wanting to see you ride some trains again. I really enjoy your films my man. Keep up the good work and stay safe

Really nice vlog. Good edits and storytelling. I recognized Bukhara from one of the Bald and Bankrupt's videos. Architecture is amazing. Also, mosques remind me a bit of Morocco. Long story short, great video.

Thank you, thank you. Between high school and university every young person should go on a quest like Vagabond.. Bravo!

Wow great great journey🎉. Thx a lot! I would love to see the trainhop 😢

Great video, as always. I found the history and your video footage of the Aral Sea particularly interesting. On a side note: The correct English expression for Silk Way is Silk Road.

Very beautiful architecture and the Uzbek food looks delicious. I enjoy that you take the time to show us the little quirks of the places you visit, like all of the Chevrolets!

such a astonishing and beautiful city, amazing.

great video!

without your travels and vids some places on the earth were just some points one the world map. Thank you so much for showing those places. 🙂

This is the best travel channel on KZread, I love your informative videos and can't understand why you don't have many more subscribers yet 😉.

great like always :)

Thanks! From Greece!

Fukin brilliant once again lad

the mosaics are amazing. I think bald and bankrupt was here before, because it looks familiar and I certainly haven't travelled there before (unfortunately)

Beautiful architecture.

Awesome video about this historical cities . The columns in minute 12:08 - 12:11 they look just like the ones in Isfahan palace in the historical main central square.

The eastern Aral Sea is completely gone since mid 2020 and the western part has maybe a decade left. It's so saline it never freezes over in frigid weather. Meanwhile the northern Aral Sea is stable and freezes over every winter. Edit: This winter I saw thin wind blown ice forming at a water temperature of -5C, but not enough to form a continues ice cover.

@randylahey1822

2 ай бұрын

Stalin the man who could turn large bodies of water into small ponds..

@kitosjek9541

2 ай бұрын

​@@randylahey1822 this is more on Khruschev and his " agricultural " reforms

@mattislindehag3065

2 ай бұрын

@@kitosjek9541 Sure. It happened because some rivers were diverted to irrigate Uzbekistan in order to produce cotton. It actually worked very well, making the Uzbek SSR the largest producer of cotton in the world back in the 80:s. Here's a thing though. Among all the measures for saving the Aral Sea that have been attempted is a lot of futile mumbo jumbo while something very important is glaringly abscent. At no point is it mentioned that the rivers were rediverted back to the Aral Sea. It's the Uzbeks who have been holding that spiggot ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. The continued shrinkage of the Aral Sea was attributed to Uzbekistan and their cotton farming policies as far back as the 90:s. The Soviets realized that Aral Sea would disappear from this very early on and made a willfull sacrefice. The Uzbeks continue making that sacrefice every single day.

Shouts out Uzbek! Thanks for showing us around Vaga. Your English is getting so good! Also WOW the American $$ dollar is powerful!

9:44 its not concrete or cement with dry grass, its hay with mud (clay) 😁

Beautiful People.

Welcome to my country! 🫡🇺🇿

great

Back in the 'USSR'! Nice details, glad you are well.

These cars in actual are Daewoo Motors with the Chevrolet logo!

@Altpfurz

2 ай бұрын

Daewoo Motors co had built their car plant in Uzbekistan back in the middle of nineties. It was called UzDaewoo. Initially this plant produced the Nexia model, which was essentially restyled latest Opel Kadett. The car plant is located in the city of Asaka in Andijan region. Nowadays, the plant is owned by JV GM Uzbekistan.

did they find ancient shipwrecks at the bottom as the sea dried up?

Nice video but I miss your train hopping content. Would be nice to see some of those again!

This works

one day a date with vaga bond! one day!

Thanks for another very interesting adventure. I see you are from Izhevsk area... near to Kazan where some very interesting & mysterious guitar pedals I have recently acquired were made in 1970s.

@LucaPasini2

2 ай бұрын

I have two preamps made by a company from Omsk, further East, called AMT Electronics. They are really good and cleverly thought-out, I hope everyone there is doing well!

@coolcraig112

2 ай бұрын

Ivan doesn't care about your guitar pedals buddy.

@VegasCyclingFreak

Ай бұрын

@@coolcraig112 Maybe so but they represent an interesting time in Soviet history (mid to late 70s), when just being in a rock band could get you put in prison if it somehow offended the Ministry of Culture, among a variety of other reasons. Yet at the the same time, these guitar pedals seem to have been an example of state sanctioned manufacturing. This is a pretty weird concept for someone born and raised in the USA.

@VegasCyclingFreak

Ай бұрын

@@LucaPasini2 Are those relatively modern or "vintage"? My two guitar pedals, simply called Kazan "Kvaker" and "Vibrato" & made around 1977, came to me all the way from Ukraine (during the current war) and Kazakhstan, by way of China.

@LucaPasini2

Ай бұрын

@@VegasCyclingFreakThey are modern, maybe they're still in production now, as since writing the comment I checked the company on Instagram and they seem still active and able to travel abroad

Wow Uzbekistan is very clean country by the looks of it. Will you do video on your local city Izhevsk one day?

It's amazing how clean everything looks. Even around the few bare looking old walls you're showing it seems like people don't litter. So nice to see

Wonderful and interesting video once again! What’s it with KZread and train hopping? You had those videos before and there is still a a lot of others posting train hopping videos. Why you?

Ого, из Чукотки, где я родилась сразу в Ташкент, где я выросла 😅

Very beautiful traditional clothing 😍 Hi from Latvia

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I remember National Geographic had a big article about the Aral Sea back in the 1980s.

cool

You and Dave Legenda look like twins.

This man loves his mosaics

There are a lot of train-hopping videos on youtube, doesn't seem like it's a big problem.

Your home town according to Wikipedia is the brothertown of Tatabánya witch is kinda interesting because I was in Tatabánya many times

19:21 kto tu z Polski? xD

So beautiful 😍 I was working in Uzbekistan for 3 months in 2011. Is it still the big banknote 1000 sum? I remember when l pay the monthly rent for the room l have to bring full bag of money 💰 😂 They drive Chevrolet because there is big factory near Tashkent.

Stunning country. All Chevy cars would never be my guess. Curious, when a restaurant gives you more, do you leave extra $?

GREAT! Learning of the people is good. The Aral sea became smaller as ice caps receded farther after much time. Human over-use of the water source depleted it more (without natural replenishment). There was a time when glaciers covered more then the Aral sea or drained into it. Humans are not the cause of this. It is a cycle of how Earth works over tremendous amounts of time.

I'm am American🇺🇲 I lived and got married in Tashkent to an Uzbek women Islam karimov was the Dictator president those were Crazy 1989 days I was stopped so many times by the Police as I was the only foreign person there but I enjoyed the country haha 👍

@georgeklemens7577

2 ай бұрын

Who needs punctuation anyway

@blpblp-tj7ux

2 ай бұрын

​@@georgeklemens7577 verbal diarrhea

@teresarose685

2 ай бұрын

@@georgeklemens7577anyway does not have a plural form

@piggyraccoon5464

2 ай бұрын

Are you still married tho? Can you send some proof?

@SJB117

2 ай бұрын

@@piggyraccoon5464who do you think you are wtf

Uzbek Chevys is the name of a band that fuses Central Asian and American country and western music

Also you should have visited aralsk 7 with protective gear viewers would love it

@ivantrainsLIVE

2 ай бұрын

It doesn't exist anymore.

@mpky23

2 ай бұрын

@@ivantrainsLIVE What a shame. I wonder what shape Akarmara is in, are you guys allowed to travel abkhazia and south ossetia nowdays?

3:07 "Look at that, it's a LIVING turtle!" our boy was used to dead ones only.. :(

you are from izhevsk? the famous kalashnikov making town?

One of the mods for my cities skylines soviet themed maps I was making is that hotel! And shocking to see anyone driving a Chevy! 😂

Utube strikes again 😮. Beautiful architecture, though . 💙✌️🤗

amazing as usual - going to go when I get the chance. Do you only do these videos in English and not Russian?

@ivantrainsLIVE

2 ай бұрын

I've been filming only in English for the last year.

what's your filming/editing approach? Do you edit on the road or go home to edit?

Chevrolet owned Lada for a few years so basically youre seeing Lada models with a Chevy logo😂

All in all, I liked Uzbekistan. The bonus is that it is not expensive at all.

I can see the IRANIAN architecture influence in central Asia. It was part of the ancient Persian empire.