Ashgabat Hotel

... immigration procedures at Ashgabat airport. And to our relief, we were met by our friendly guide Maksat and delivered to our Ashgabat hotel with no problems. We may sound paranoid about airport procedures and being met by our travel guides but from past ...

... job and before returning to my beloved Vienna, off I went on four back to back Drago trips over three months from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, through, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan ending in Beijing, China.   I met up with John, another passenger due on the ...

... nbsp;                   Ashgabat    Good breakfast at the hotel, hopefully included in the price. Decide to take a taxi to the chairlift, which our guide ...

... trying to determine whether buildings such as a university building would fall within the "do not photograph" category. Our time in Ashgabat was not terribly "touristy" in the sense of visiting museums and sites, however, the whole city itself is quite a ...

... 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 ...

... . The trouble is, when you do it with a blind rise (there probably isnt anyone coming) there might be.Drove into Ashgabat at about 6ish. Impressive city, tall buildings, and fountains. Apparently more fountains than Las Vegas, and I can well believe it. ...

... baby all night and didn't even need the hole I had predug in case of emergency. To be continued................... I have now been in Ashgabat for a couple of days now and it is truely fantastic here - really. we are staying in a really nice hotel with ...

... me sweets when I was feeling sad. We had a marvellous (but painfully slow) train ride from the border to Ashgabat, where I was again treated to the wonderful hospitality and kindness of Central Asian people. As we arrived, Turkmenistan's great capital ...

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 ...

... . I really was surprised..... For sure the craziest trip I ever made....wow. Which places in Turkmenistan did we visit? Ashgabat, Erbent, Damla, Underground Lake (Köw Ata), some mosques, Kunya Urgench, Dhasoguz, Mary, Merw. I often read that Turkmenistan ...

... wheels spinning to answer the question “where on earth am I ?!?!” kind of speechless.  I can definitively say that Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the strangest place I’ve ever been.  It’s got the paranoid-State feel of China, ...

... 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 ...

... was the giant bull, with the earth atop his horns, covered with scenes of destruction (the 1948 earthquake that levelled Ashgabat and orphaned the Turkmenbashi), and atop this black mass... the golden child himself. Ridiculous. Equally ridiculous was the ...

... with a monument to the new leader. Anyway enough about the government. I’m currently still in transit from Khiva, Uzbekistan to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. We got up early this morning and made our way to the border, which took about 3 hours to ...

... me scared of what will happen when I go back to say, Aurora or Tucson....I might die! I like to describe Ashgabat as a mix of the Bellagio hotel and a monopoly board. Really, it is all huge, white, "marble" buildings in the middle of nowhere and a lot ...

... So that is the school/work update. To bring in the new month, my site mate and I decided that we needed to go to Ashgabat to say goodbye to a volunteer that is heading home. He went to Thailand and took an English teaching job there that will start up ...