© August 07 2007, Uncornered Market
Our train ticket between Bukhara and Samarkand on the fast train. The cashier literally cuts around the numbers in order to create the receipt: 6950 sum.
You'd think that a train ticket would have a set price, but each tourist we talked to paid something different (between 4,000 - 9,000 sum) for the exact same ticket.
Ticket office officials, in bouts of creativity, throw in additional "insurance fees" and other random fees. An accurate representation of how things work in Uzbekistan.
For more reading on Uzbekistan:
www.uncorneredmarket.com/2007/11/a-real-peek-at-uzbekista...
www.uncorneredmarket.com/2007/11/uzbekistan-overchargistan/
Guifré Miquel
Damned tickets! I paid it more expensive than you! The worst thing there was the half hour that the official needed to do it. It was a handmade work with the scissors. Absolutly surrealistic!
Posted: August 22 2007
uncorneredmarket
Surreal is a good word to describe the whole ticketing process! In our poll, two German tourists paid the least amount for this trip - 4,000 sum. Two Russian tourists paid the most - 9,000 sum.
Posted: August 23 2007
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