Country Info
- Ashgabat
- Capital
- Manat (TMM)
- Currency
- 4,603,244
- Population
- TM
- Country Code
Turkmenistan Slideshow
Turkmenistan
Travel Blogs from Turkmenistan
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 ...
A Night to Remember: Yangykala Canyon
... hotel in which we were staying, and so we simply enjoyed relaxing in what is apparently one of the best hotels in Turkmenistan. Balkanabat was really a stopover point to enable us to get well out into the wilderness to the remote Yangykala Canyon, where ...
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 ...
Turn Left at the Cow
Our trip through Turkmenistan had, until this point, involved driving through the expansive, living Turkmen desert - a landscape that stretches to the horizon with small rolling dunes or low hills covered in a rough scrub and dotted with camels. Today we ...