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  • 22 - Stepford Wives go Soviet We made it to the border and were glad to make it across with all our dollars, as there aren't any cash machines for foreigners in Turkmenistan, and no hassle for our artwork. Across the border, we met Timur, our Posted by FiColes in Fi & Bryn's Big Trip | Sep 25, 2009
  • Merw The ruins of Merw are a bit tricky to make sense of because unlike Troy the different historical layers are not peeled off like an onion but rather form a network of clusters next to each other. This makes the Posted by Lent in Olympic bicycle ride 2008 | May 3, 2008
  • Crossing the desert So the first part of the "real" Silk Road from ancient Merw onwards passes the Garagum desert perpendicularly to reach Turkmenabat and the Amuderya river plain. We crossed the 180km desert stretch in two days and it required some guesswork Posted by Lent in Olympic bicycle ride 2008 | May 3, 2008
  • Hotter In Mary, SW-Turkmenistan, I managed to slip into an Internet-Cafe to cover the unbearably hot afternoon hours. Internet is a fairly recent arrival in Turkmenistan (most people don't even understand the word) and public access is only possible in official Posted by Lent in Olympic bicycle ride 2008 | Apr 28, 2008
  • Hot Moving further southeastwards along the Kopet Dag mountains, clouds and rain have now definitely gone away and made room for temperatures far over 30 degrees. Somehow against my Posted by Lent in Olympic bicycle ride 2008 | Apr 23, 2008
  • Garagum While the first three days in the Garagum ("black sands") were desert experience pure with a mostly yellowish (though hazy because of the weather) wide-stretching horizon and occasional camels on and some very basic service facilities (Cayhana) for Posted by Lent in Olympic bicycle ride 2008 | Apr 23, 2008
  • Discovering Turkmenistan The ferry transfer over the Caspian Sea from Baku tu Turkmenbashy deserves a chapter of its own right if one is used to the huge luxury vessels between Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Anyway, everybody survived the appalling hygienic conditions on Posted by Lent in Olympic bicycle ride 2008 | Apr 23, 2008
  • Minaret of Kone-Urgench Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 30, 2007
  • Darvaza, then to Uzbekistan From Ashgabat we drove north on the lonely road that goes through the Karakum Desert, which actually had a fairly decent surface, but only for half the road. The drove in Dima's Soviet UAZ Jeep (apparently it was better as Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | May 29, 2007
  • Darvaza Gas Crater Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 29, 2007
  • Ashgabat - Pictures [img=http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/ Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 29, 2007
  • Ashgabat With its sweeping boulevards lined with marble monoliths, eerily empty parks studded with golden effigies of its great leader, and a taste for architecture from the 'Star Wars meets Soviet Gigantism' school - Ashgabat is truly a worthy capital for Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 24, 2007
  • Crossing into Turkmenistan We spent out last Iranian night in the surprisingly good (if expensive) hotel in Sarakhs, a town split in half by the Iran-Turkmenistan border. Unfortunately, when we came to leaving, the hotel refused to give me my passport back. That's Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | May 24, 2007

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