CENTRAL ASIA The glowing crater at night The design of this building was inspired by traditional Turkmen tents and the traditional headgear worn by Turkmen girls. A Unesco heritage site shows how the kings and the city once were in the olden days. Known as the white city, Ashgabat not only dazzles during the day in buildings adorned in white Italian Marble, the city turn into a fairy land by night decorated in beautiful water features and golden glow from the lights. Yangykala Canyon is breathtaking and undoubtedly the most spectacular natural attraction in Turkmenistan we have seen With bands of pink, red and yellow rock searing across the sides of steep canyon walls, it extends as far as the eyes can see and not a single soul in sight except us. At the cemetery of the isolated village of Nokhur, nearly every grave is marked by a wooden post adorned with the horns of a mountain goat. An engineering disaster turned this into an attraction. The biggest camp fire in the middle of the Desert, what a way to keep you warm in the chilly winds of the night. Birds drifting in the warm updrafts from the gas crater If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building. Adorned in white italian marble, crystal chandeliers and hand woven Turkmen carpets can accommodate 10k worshipper in its elegantly decorated complex and a celestial dome with elegant artwork. The Mosque built in honor of Turkmenbashi A view of the caspian sea from a view point near the city of Turkmenbashi Back to Albums List