How deep is the pond? vol.2

The question of whether Uzbekistani are Asians or the Westerners must be cleared with asking the residents. So I did. The East Asia is far away for them. Do they feel any affinity to the tourists from Europe? But they told me Westerners are Westerners to them. After all, here have been an eternal cross section between the east and the west in the history.
In another words, Uzbekistan is a place where the tourist, whichever from Asia or Europe, can have a feeling of "away game"

Now I'll talking on the currency. A traveller must pay for hotels or express trains in USD. It means the prices is not mad cheap like a share taxi which I mentioned before. In most of other situation, you can pay in any of USD and the local SUM. But as you can guess, the SUM is coming down to the USD day by day. So paying in good rate USD is better idea? Maybe no. Because USD unit is too big for small change.
The problem is a bunch of SUM bills, more than a hundred, in my hand. I've never imagined gotta pay all the accommodations in USD. I changed too much.

However I heard recently the payment for hotels were changed to SUM. The USD pricing for hotel was settled in 2014, then in 2017 it's back to the price in SUM. The rule is too changeable.
Above all, the troublesome thing is stiffed old regulations and changeable rules are mixed together. For instance, I heard that a Registraziya (Tourist registration released by every accommodation) would be strictly checked at the border post when I leave the country. Foreign tourist can stay in a local guest house for domestic traveller. But in the case, you gotta register by yourself at the police station. Sounds like complicated so I reject the offer for a cozy room by local residents. But at the border post the check is quite normal. The officers aren't so much interested in a bunch of my Registrazia with hotel's stamps. Nevertheless the inconvenient system is still going on.

Meanwhile, the international train from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan that I heard it took 6 hours at the border for immigration is now much quicker. Plus the sleeper train was modern like a city hotel. I cross the border by taxi and catch up the train on the Kazakhstan side because I didn't know the fact. Although it's just waste of time and energy.

Well, this quick change must be dynamics of the growing country. You don't need to know the depth. Just dive into the pond and leave yourself on the water surface!