The ancient and honourable art of
rummaging under rocks for film pots hasn’t found quite the same
popularity in Uzbekistan as it has here in the UK. In it’s usual way of
making the rules up as it goes along Geo-HQ has allowed people from New
Zealand and Switzerland to have caches in Uzbekistan. Here in the UK the
cache owner has to live nearby in order to maintain the thing… But it was as well that Geo-HQ have
allowed a little leeway in the rules. With this flexibility a total of
twenty-seven geocaches have been hidden in Uzbekistan. There’s far less
than this in my home town. |
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We went out knowing this, and decided
that it wasn’t going to be a caching trip. But if we were walking past
one, we’d have a look. Or, what we actually did a few times was to walk
past the cache location with the group, spy out the likely hiding place, then
slip back on our own so as not to waste anyone else’s time. I got rumbled by one of our party at
one point. She knew all about geocaching and said that we were doing it the
right way. Apparently she’d been on a previous holiday somewhere with
geocachers who had demanded that the tour itinerary be changed so as they
could do geocaching rather than do any of the planned trips or activities. |
Through total chance our trip took us
past several caches, and a few were not a mile’s walk from our hotels.
We came home being the UK’s top finders
of Uzbekian geocaches.