My family and I are 9 months into a 14 month RTW trip, and are currently stuck in Uzbekistan, after the government cancelled all flights in and out of the country (foreigners are allowed to leave, but there are no flights for us to leave on). We were in Bukhara when we woke up to this news on March 16, so couldn't make it to Tashkent in time for any of the final flights out. Two of us are dual US/Australian citizens and one is a US citizen, so we are in contact with the US embassy and the British Embassy (who are looking after Aussies as there is no Aussie embassy here) who are supposedly coordinating with the Uzbek government on charter flights to get foreigners out.

Although we live in the US, we would like to go to Australia where we have a house and ride things out there, as our current health insurance does not cover us in the US (and the news about the US response does not exactly inspire confidence). Hopefully we'll be able to get on a charter flight to some hub where we can get on a flight to Australia before the end of the month when it looks like flight availability will pretty much dwindle to nothing.

The Uzbek government has extended permission to stay in the country for all foreign tourists until April 10, presumably would extend further if they don't organize flights (least they could do when it's their decision that has us stuck here). We did hear at our hostel about a traveler from the Netherlands who went to the airport yesterday and talked his way onto a flight to Moscow that was transiting Tashkent, but that's not the kind of punt I'm willing to take with my family.