Hotel Nebitchi Ashgabat

Novofiryuzinskoe shosse, Berzengi Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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A Night to Remember: Yangykala Canyon

A travel blog entry by scottandchar

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Our overnight stay in Balkanabat was uneventful - our guide assured us that the best place to go was the 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 …

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Stadttour mit Turkmeninnen, '1984'

A travel blog entry by timon_richiger

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... an die negativen Utopien aus den Buechern 1984 oder Brave New World. Weiter kommt noch dazu, dass es faktisch eine Ausgangssperre nach 23 Uhr gibt. Diese ist zwar nirgends niedergeschrieben, aber alle Restaurants und Laeden muessen dann schliessen und wenn man sich draussen aufhaelt wird man staendig von Polizisten kontrolliert. Nach 23 Uhr ist Ashgabat noch viel mehr eine Gespensterstadt. Aber ehrlich gesagt wird dieser Beschrieb der Stadt ...

Outrageous Ashbabat

A travel blog entry by helen-wositzky

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... is the Arch of Neutrality - currently being moved - it was in Independance square and ontop of it a gold statue of Niyazov that rotated to always face the sun. Unfortunately the statue was not on it at the moment.

Ashgabat is keeping the worlds marble industry afloat, almost the entire city is built of marble..Each government department has outrageously large buildings, the streets are lined with the most ornate lampposts, even the traffic lights are a work of art. ...

A crazy several days

A travel blog entry by 110days

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... the rally and our truck. I am not entirely sure why it took so long to load, but I do know that a ticket for each of us cost ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS and the truck cost, in addition to that, $900. Thus, when the crew started hassling Will, the driver, for $50 'to help the captain', I think it is a small miracle that nobody was injured in the exchange. We later heard from a traveller onboard that previously, the ferry had stopped halfway across the sea to demand ...

The Marble Kingdom

A travel blog entry by dan.

... walked to the nearest bank about twenty minutes away, you'd swear we'd just been for a 10k run. The bank security were looking very suspiciously at us. We changed some money, drank their cool water machine dry and headed into town. A taxi car quickly picked us up because the heat was unbearable and it dropped us into the centre, right beside a supposedly good English themed bar. It was! Apart from the prices of beer, the food was western ...