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We've spent 3 days in Ashgabat, a heavily manicured town centre of marble buildings and gold domes, which looks rather like it was designed in Sim City.
The first afternoon we arrived was spent by the pool, eating great italian food from the hotel restaurant.
The second day we went to Ashgabat market, which seemed to sell everything, including flying camels [VID]. That afternoon we wandered round town, chased by the police and army every time we tried to take a photo. (We sneakily managed a few, but these were found and deleted at the border crossing as we left the country. Unless you managed to remove your memory card in time. [Sneaky PICS]). That night we went to the 'British Pub'. Which served Russian beer and Mexican food in a mainly French setting. Excellent fajitas though.
Our Azerbaijan visas didn't come back from the embassy in time so we had an extra morning to potter about. I went to the supermarket to buy some food for the upcoming ferry crossing. I picked up lots of snacks and some cream crackers so imagine my delight when I also found the cheese counter full of big blocks of Australian cheese, which I took to be cheddar. Imagine my further delight when I got back to the hotel to discover my Australian Cheddar turned out to be 1kg of very hard butter. Had to go back and buy another kilo of Edam, so all was not lost.
Sad moment saying goodbye to the rest of the group who weren't coming to Istanbul. Some of them had been with us since Xian, China, 10 weeks ago.
Last thing we do before leaving Ashgabat is fill up with diesel, which at $0.02/litre costs less than $5 to fill up the truck, then spend the day driving alongside the Iranian border to the ferry port in Turkmenbashi (via about 12 police stops...).
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