In the evening we had dinner in the summer palace outside the old city. Before the dinner we enjoyed a performance of traditional Uzbek music and dancing.

We made it into Khiva and Uzbekistan a further long drive, a bureaucratic border crossing and another one hour drive later. The hotel was straight next to the West Gate of the old town, so I ventured our for some first impressions … and did not get disappointed (actually – Khiva was my personal highlight of the whole trip … but judge yourself).