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.

 

 

 

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.