Raw Silk: Uzbekistan Travels Part VIII: Qyzylqum

We drive from Khiva, via Urgench across the Amu Darya to the A380, joining it near Beruni. Continuing SE roughly along the spine of the doab, we see the lakes Saduar Chash Kala and Rabochiy (along the Amu Darya) between Kulatau and Uch-Uchak. The next 300 miles are the desolation of Qyzylqum, with barchan dunes and scrub. (Strangely, we get a 3g GSM data signal at 40.9 deg N deg E -- probably picking up the communications tower at the Turkmen border post of Dzigherbent.) We reach Bukhara at sunset.