Ashgabat Hotels

... of travel itinerary in Turkmenistan. Travel Consultant: Mr Odil Akhmedov Email: oakhmedov@advantour.com Owadan Tourism, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan: All travel in Turkmenistan and assistance with the land border crossing into Iran. Travel Consultant: ...

... Turkije te proeven, voelen en ruiken. Maar ook het moderne Turkije is steeds meer in opkomst met luxe nieuwe hotels, prachtige golfbanen en hippe uitgaansgelegenheden. Turkije is een land van diverse landschappen. Zo vindt u hier vruchtbare valleien, ...

...  is quite a hang out for tourists. To just sit and observe the place was simply fascinating. In contrast to the Ashgabat street scenes of conservatively dressed women in long heavy gowns and head scarfs, the young modern female staff wore ...

... . 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 ...

... 2 days transiting from Uzbekistan, through Mary and the ancient city of Merv, we were keen to finally see the quirks of Ashgabat. Late president Niyazov, or Turkmenbashi the Great (Great leader of the Turkmens), as he liked to be known, designed a city ...

... . Barely any buildings or towns or farms or any indication of civilisation. Just a sort of scrubby desert. THEN you get to Ashgabat. I don't think I will be able to describe it. The city is massive, and the buildings are almost all white marble trimmed ...

... at regular intervals on the sides of the roads... weird! Turkmenistan is also a police state. In the 6 hour drive between Ashgabat and the border with Uzbekistan, I estimate we were stopped no less than 10 times, having to show our passports. ...

... as possible, but I have decided that every 40 tomatoes I eat, one of them is bad and makes me really sick. So I found myself in Ashgabat again and sleeping at the nurse's home. It is a slice of heaven to go to a staff member's house, but once again ...

... the edge. Surrounded by the mountains, which form a natural border with Iran, there is a kilometre long strip of recently built hotels. It went desert, desert, desert, strip of hotels, desert. Turkmenbashi though that if he built them they would come. But ...

... 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 ...

When last we left our intrepid traveler I was whining about being sick, but by the time we got to Ashgabat I was back in form. Now just so you will appreciate how hard we 'toured' on this jaunt, let me describe our last day in some detail.  Keep in ...

... the afternoon by the pool watching the locals swim and remove their wedgies and tried to take it all in. A country that builds hotels but has no tourists. Where there are ten guards for every person and a passport check every thirty kilometres. Where one ...

... the border from one of our tours out of Ashgabat.   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Our last (farewell) dinner: . . ...

... offshore. Now that I knew I'd just have at most 3 days to cross Turkmenistan, I planned a faster route:  Turkmenbashi - Ashgabat - Mary (and then to Uzbekistan), rather than the route that I'd originally planned (which went across the desert to ...