Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan

We checked out of the hotel in Turkmenbashi at noon and headed down to the port to camp on the doorstep to try and sort a ferry. Oleg finally discovered that both of the ferries we had seen yesterday had sailed and that one of the ones there now could, ...

... die Russen geleistet haben und 20000 Turkmenen starben. Dort steht heute die zweitgroesste Moschee Turkmenistans. Auf dem Weg nach Turkmenbashi, dem Hafen am Kaspischen Meer, haben wir ausserdem vier Traveller auf dem Weg in die andere Richtung ...

... needed to be checked again. For some reason the official wasn't too happy and wanted to see all the papers claiming that our Turkmenistan code hadn't been stamped (admittedly this is a bit of concern but we weren't going to let him know that). He then ...

... van at the border.) Having spent an hour looking for a bank we eventually found one where they informed us that nowhere in Turkmenbashi takes cards. Armed with this information chris and i headed, via taxi, to some of the grander hotels to see what they ...