Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan Travel Blogs

Ferry From Hell, Part I
Jun 12, 2008 (18 photos)

... die Russen geleistet haben und 20000 Turkmenen starben. Dort steht heute die zweitgroesste Moschee Turkmenistans. Auf dem Weg nach Turkmenbashi, dem Hafen am Kaspischen Meer, haben wir ausserdem vier Traveller auf dem Weg in die andere Richtung ...

on the sodding ferry. still.
Jul 6, 2009

... needed to be checked again. For some reason the official wasn't too happy and wanted to see all the papers claiming that our Turkmenistan code hadn't been stamped (admittedly this is a bit of concern but we weren't going to let him know that). He then ...

many bad things and one fantastic bit
Jul 8, 2009

... van at the border.) Having spent an hour looking for a bank we eventually found one where they informed us that nowhere in Turkmenbashi takes cards. Armed with this information chris and i headed, via taxi, to some of the grander hotels to see what they ...

Waiting for a ferry
Oct 5, 2006

Get to the ferry terminal at midday. Ferry has just left so need to wait for the next one at 6pm. No problem. ...time passes... 2 dock worked have sadly died in a benzene accident so the next two ferries are being exclusively used to transport the ...

Ferry to Turkmenbashi
Jun 27, 2006 (2 photos)

We heard that fewer than 100 tourists cross this particular border each year. Getting across the Caspian with our truck required obtaining a place on a cargo ferry that has proved tricky for previous overlanding trucks. The crossing itself should take 15 ...

Turkmenbashi
Jul 23, 2008

Camping on the portside.

The Ferry from Hell!
Jul 21, 2009 (6 photos)

We checked out of the hotel in Turkmenbashi at noon and headed down to the port to camp on the doorstep to try and sort a ferry. Oleg finally discovered that both of the ferries we had seen yesterday had sailed and that one of the ones there now could, ...

still the ferry.
Jul 7, 2009

Guess what, still on this $@*&%£! boat. At time of writing we have been on deck for 49 hours, some way more than the average 12-18 or the extreme 30 hours as suggested by lonely pants. Apparently it is still too windy to dock! What?(It's not windy in ...

Terrible Turkmenistan Trains
Aug 27, 2005 (1 photos)

DAY 26. AUGUST 27. TRAIN TO TURKMENBASHI Terrible Turkmenistan Trains It takes one hour and costs $1USD to fly there. By car, allowing for the continual passport checks it takes six hours. For some unknown reason we are taking the overnight train from ...

End Of The Line
Jul 20, 2009 (3 photos)

... Oleg and departing with the benefit of Air Conditioning!  Lovely! Oleg set a cracking pace across the barren desert north to Turkmenbashi.  The last Dictator ( sorry, "President"! ) renamed the town after himself. This is the end of the line for ...

The sunbaked wastes of the eastern Caspian
Jun 1, 2002

Nothing to see here - map pin only.

Dip in the caspian see
May 15, 2009 (2 photos)

May be update later

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Aug 8, 2006

wow

At the caspian sea
May 14, 2009 (2 photos)

May be update later

Turkmenistan
Jan 30, 2007

Turkmenistan