Thursday, December 11, 2025

Of Samsas and Plovs

 If you should know anything about the Arun Kumar family, it should be that we do not waste any opportunity to travel. You should also know that we are quite merciless in this quest to explore places -  even the offspring are not spared. For our last trip to Japan, Child 1 ditched us for adulting (which he instantly regretted and made it a point to call and nag about every single day of our trip). This time, Child 2 decided football trumps travel (imagine!), and refused to vacation with us during the summer break. So we decided we'd actually take that break a bit earlier, when the whole world and their spawn are not gripped by wanderlust. Which is how April found us visiting the 'stans' as the Baa-Lamb likes to call them. Namely: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.