Great leisure areas, huge playgrounds, and the food court zone is just 💚. For some reason there are almost no tourists — mostly locals relaxing with their families.

The air conditioning works, classical music is playing. It gets a bit stuffy where the zoo area is, but we spent half a day here after the guided tour, and neither the kids nor I wanted to leave, but it was already starting to get dark.

In hand luggage at the airport on Uzbekistan Airways — they don’t let ceramics through. Well, maybe because I told the inspectors that I had ceramics. Otherwise, it might have passed.

And one more thing: if you go to the market, they have very cheap and excellent terry towels and children’s outfits