TurkmenistanTurkmenistan is one of the few countries of any size lefton the globe which is not the subject of a dedicatedtravel guide in English. Yet, lying as it does at theheart of the Silk Road route, it is a historically andculturally rich land; and travellers can gain insightinto the heritage with the clear itineraries supplied ofthe major ...... |
Contents
Chapter | 7 |
Practical Information | 21 |
PART TWO THE GUIDE | 61 |
the Heart of Turkmenistan | 105 |
the Caspian and the West | 135 |
the North | 163 |
Chapter 8 | 200 |
Appendix I | 228 |
Common terms and phrases
26 Baku Commissars accommodation Ahal Tekke horses air conditioning Altyn Amu Darya Archabil arched Ashgabat Baba Balkanabat Bazaar Berzengi border BRADT TRAVEL GUIDE building built Café carpet Caspian century complex Dashoguz Dashoguz Region decorated desert display dome east entrance Etrek flight foreign fortress Geok Depe Georogly Kochesi golden head Hotel Kafé Kala Kara Kum Khorezm Khorezmshahs kilometres Kochesi Konye-Urgench Kopet Dag Kopet Dag Mountains Lebap Magtymguly Shayoly main road manat marble-faced Mary mausoleum Merv monument mosque museum Nature Reserve Oasis offers Oguz Old Nisa Palace post-independence President Niyazov railway station reach restaurant rooms route Ruhnama Russian Saparmurat Niyazov Saparmurat Turkmenbashy Seljuk Serakhs Serdar Serhetabat settlement shashlik shrine pilgrimage side Soviet period statue taxi Tejen Tekke tourist Transcaspian travel agencies Turkmen government Turkmenabat Turkmenbashy Turkmenbashy Shayoly Turkmenistan Airlines village visa visitors walls yurt