Hotel President Turkmenistan

... Turkmenistan didn't want by the way) Niyazov simply changed the name of his party to the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan and made himself President, creating a personality cult in a similar fashion to the Kim Dynasty in North Korea. He took the name of ...

... bound for the Aral Sea (which is in Uzbekistan and Kazakastan).  Its disappearance has led to bad environmental problems in northern Turkmenistan, with a lot of salination of the land. We will soon be able to see the country for ourselves, as we are ...

... North Sam, a Russian speaking American English teacher, and I crossed the border from the northwestern Uzbekistan to northern Turkmenistan. The border guard told us that, on average, there are one or two foreigners passing through that border crossing. ...

... to undermine the point of statues. Surely, the more people that see them the better, especially in Turkmenistan where they are all about propagandizing the President. We stopped for the night not far outside Ashgabat, in a clearing characterised only by a ...

... 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 trip ...