Turkmenistan 2024 — Bernd's Perspective

Journey through the deserts of Turkmenistan, April 2024.

My hotel in Ashgabat

Impressive garden

...even more impressive corridors

monument with white car (only white cars are allowed)

white buildings

more white buildings

Ashgabat is also knows as the White City

Ashgabat

Monument, white buildings, white cars

Ashgabat

Ashgabat

Very important dog

They like their horses in Turkmenistan

And Lenin apparently

A mosque

The civic centre, the number of wedding guests has recently been limited by law to 600

The biggest indoor ferris wheel in the world, and the have the letter from Guiness to prove it

Crowd control

Is it an indoor ferris wheel if the sides are open?

what a view...

Just another monumental building

The education ministry and the foreign ministry

Ashgabat

Monument

Monument

surrounded by famous Turkmens

Inside there was a museum, now it's empty

Zelili and Seydi

Multi headed eagle

The Guy!

This model of the book he's written rotates with the sun!

Me wearing a funny hat

Rather grand building

No doubt an important person

Something about the origin of Turkmenistan

Eternal flame

Turkmen horse

Bojack

Tolkuchka market

Tolkuchka market

goats

sheep

Old Nisa

It's indeed very old

New Nisi, also quite old

Lizard

ruins

dinner

dessert

One of the few churches in Turkmenistan

Very dead Jesus?

Head on a plate?

Merv

Merv

Camels

Mausoleums

Goats

Mosque

The Guy can do everything!

Lunch

Desert

Sink hole with water and debris

Sink hole with fire

Yurt camp

Bar Cat

Darvaza flaming crater

Influencers in the wild

Darvaza

Camels at dawn

Dashoguz

Shoes

Archeologists at work

Elderly women coming from the mosque

Dashoguz Yurt

Japanese war memorial in Turkmenbashi

Avaza Beach Resort

Hotels in Avaza

Beach

Into the desert again...

Mangy camels

desert

desert where the Caspian Sea once was

desert

more desert

Picnic!

white desert

white desert

camels

red desert

red desert

red desert

desert

desert

quite beautiful bit of desert

desert

desert