Hotel Rahat
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I ain't coming here again!!!
... to window 1 and from there grunted at and pointed towards an office. In the office, 2 surly looking immigration officers looked at me 'up and down' as if I had just arrived from the planet Zarg!! But they did stamp my passport so I was officially in.
I then had to go to customs and put my bag through the x-ray machine. I then had to walk through an x-ray machine which was obviously not switched on because if it had been, ...
Opulent Ashgabat
... advised to ask before shooting.
I went the safer path and took shots of the earthquake monument. In 1948 a massive earthquake killed 110,000 people and flattened the city in one minute. Across the road I found the Lenin monument then I looped back and went towards the Russian market – being asked by a military man to not walk on the side of the street with an official ...
Stadttour mit Turkmeninnen, '1984'
... macht die Stadt extrem weistlaeufig und fuehrt dazu, dass eine gespenstische Leere herrscht. Aber eigentlich kann ich dies nicht verurteilen, denn Platz zum bauen hat Turkmenistan nun wirklich genug. Trotzdem kam mir alles sehr unwirklich vor! Auch aufgrund der totalen Ueberwachung, denn an jeder Strassenecke stehen 2 Polizisten und in der Innenstadt gibt es unzaehlige Videokameras. Aufgrund dieser Ueberwachung und Sterilitaet erinnerte mich die Stadt ...
Outrageous Ashbabat
WOW - what can you say about this place.
Surrounded by desert & bare hills, Ashgabat was all but wiped from the earth in 1948 with an earthquake. The rebuild was an uninspiring Soviet city but since independance 20 years ago it has been almost rebuilt. Most of it orchestrated by former President Niyazov - and most of it in honour of himself.
It is very spaced out, with the hills around also hosting some amazing buildings & statues.
One of the ...
A crazy several days
... 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 ...
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