Country Info
- Ashgabat
- Capital
- Manat (TMM)
- Currency
- 4,603,244
- Population
- TM
- Country Code
Ashgabat Slideshow
Ashgabat
Travel Blogs from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
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Last Day, Full Day
... museum where we learned about the various traditional designs of the five main Turkmen tribes. Let me digress a moment. Turkmenistan is an interesting country. The post-independence leader, Turkmen Bashi the Great (and let me tell you ...
The White City
... probably counts as one of the more surreal locations visited on our trip. Niyazov, the now-deceased first leader of post-Soviet Turkmenistan dictated that all new buildings are to be covered with white marble. The effect is that of a fairytale city. ...
Outrageous Ashbabat
... sweet wines & cognac bought from Samarkand, vodka of course, warm beer - yuk, but it all went. So - there's not much to Turkmenistan - a few villages, lots of desert, a gas crater & an outrageous city. That actually is it. If I was to sunup ...
The marble but empty city
In Asghabat I found a hotel, where I shared one room with two Turkmen, but still had to pay 15 dollars a night. I figured out, that both of them where pretty friendly, though neither of them spoke english, so we had to talk with hands and my russian ...
The Marble Kingdom
... whatever planning and scheming it is ye do, always makes men nervous no matter the age! Two hours later and we enter Ashgabat through giant marble-framed gates, towering over the motorway like the letter M from a McDonalds billboard. Phil Collins 'I ...
A crazy several days
... able to escape. We were on the truck on the road at about 11am - 47 hours after the whole thing had begun. Now we are in Turkmenistan and have been for about a day, and it is the strangest country I have ever been to. I may regret writing that, because ...
Stadttour mit Turkmeninnen, '1984'
Ashgabat, eine verrueckte Stadt. Aber alles schoen der Reihe nach. Der Grenzuebertritt von Iran nach Turkmenistan verlief einigermassen problemlos. Ausser dass ich, wie immer bei Grenzuebertritten viel Geld fuer die Taxis liegen liess. Aufgrund geringer ...
Sim City
Wondering around the streets of Ashgabat, one begins to wonder whether they have stepped into the first Turkmenistan President's game of Sim City. After spending 2 days transiting from Uzbekistan, through Mary and the ancient city of Merv, we were keen to ...
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