Are you having trouble deciding where to travel to in 2017? We’d like to provide you with some inspiration with our Staff Hotlist for 2017. Asia has so many amazing destinations on offer; it’s difficult to decide where to next! We asked the staff at Wendy Wu Tours where they want to travel to in 2017 […]
Samarkand is a truly remarkable place and its epicentre, Registan Square, is one of the most beautiful places in which you could spend time. It comprises a huge square surrounded by three medressas (religious learning centres) all built around 15th century but the ravages of time, lack of maintenance, war and earthquakes saw it badly neglected until […]
We stayed one night in Tashkent and return here before we head home. Little time to sightsee but the city appears modern and sophisticated. We flew Uzbekistan Air (another modern Boeing 757) to Urgench than drove to the historic city of Khiva. Our hotel was very comfortable and just outside one of the gates into the […]
Hello from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan! Central Asia is an incredible place. We flew to Urumqi, China with China Southern (not bad). Urumqi is the most inland city in the world – the most distant from the sea. Stayed overnight then flew to Kashgar (Kashi in Beijing Chinese vocab). Both very interesting places. Highly Muslim – the Uighurs […]