Saturday 11 August 2007

Amazing Turkmenistan



A ferry across the Caspian Sea



A land of huge desert waste but with a richness under the sand that allowed the former president to to build an amazing capital city like Ashgabat. Amazing to explore and far easier to get around with the new goverments reformed approach to tourism. Bellow some pictures of the capital, the Darvasa gas crater a natural gas crater that some how caught fire durring Soviet times and has been burning for more than 20 years. The flying camels at the Sunday market just outside Ashgabat isre not to be missed. We do some fantastic bush camps as we go through Turkmenistan.