Hotel Siyakhat Ashgabat
69, Azadi street Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
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Stadttour mit Turkmeninnen, '1984'
... ins Nichts bauen. Die Moschee strotzt nur so von Symbolik, so sind etwa die Minarette 91 Meter hoch, also gleich dem Jahr als Turkmenistan unabhaengig wurde, die Moschee hat 48 Fenster, in dem Jahr wurde Ashgabat von einem verheerenden Erdbeben heimgesucht und die ganze Familie von Niyazov wurde dabei ausgeloescht und in den Minaretten gibt es Inschriften aus dem 'heiligen' Buch von Niyazov. Der Abschied von den 3 Frauen viel mir wirklich sehr schwer...
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Outrageous Ashbabat
... d walk around the truck for for ages, checking documents, looking at everything, other times they'd just look quickly & wave us on.
Was a great time here - just jaw dropping all day long - we were shafted from our hotel for diplomats - just because they can do anything they like here, but were put up instead in the most amazing 5 star hotel - we were quite out of place in our jeans. The rooms were huge - with lounges which made for a good party to drink ALL ...
A crazy several days
... This took a while (as expected), but we all got through without too much trouble, apart from Peggy who apparently bears a likeness to a wanted terrorist.
Then we waited. We waited and waited and waited. We were through, but the truck wasn't. The truck was on the boat, waiting for the train to be taken off. We were told it would be off soon - then at 8pm - then nothing. Our optimism drained out of us as we took up positions to sleep on the tiled floor ...
The City of Love
... too. As he was pulled over for speeding but he was able to make his phonecall and get off scot free. Fair Play to him!
Back in the city we wandered around a bit more. Ashgabat is a strange city. Very large and spread out. Very new. With all the money in the country from gas and oil the previous mad president and the newer slighlty less mad, but still as bad im told, have been building non stop. The president has an image he wants ...
Kow Ata
... story shopping centre supporting the biggest fountain in the world, countless museums, statues, more water fountains, a library that stands as grand as the White House, The Palace of Knowledge, an enormous gold statue of the President, did I mention the water fountains, and of course the last president's famous book, The Ruhnama, the inscription underneath stating 'Ruhnama is a holy book; the Quran is Allah's book'. Hmm, god complex or what! He died of a heart attack at an early age. ...
