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Looking back through the travel archives #My7Links

A current web meme asks bloggers to answer seven questions with their blog posts. Amer from Tend To Travel nominated me, so here are my 7 links

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Waiting on a ferry – Middle of the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan

By steve in central asia, travel

The ferries coming in all day have been really quite good looking – painted white and kept clean. Our ferry by contrast is possibly painted rust coloured, or more likely a complete rust bucket. It’s called the Professor Gül, and happens to be mentioned in a book I’m currently reading (The New Great Game: Blood [...]

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Waiting for a ferry – Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan

By steve in central asia, travel

If you zoom into the map above you can see the car park and a ferry docked at the terminal. Get to the ferry terminal at midday. Ferry has just left so need to wait for the next one at 6pm. No problem… …time passes… 2 dock workers have sadly died in a benzene accident [...]

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Good and Bad – Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

By steve in central asia, travel

We’ve spent 3 days in Ashgabat, a heavily manicured town centre of marble buildings and gold domes, which looks rather like it was designed in Sim City.

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The Burning Door to Hell – Darvaza, Turkmenistan

By steve in central asia, travel

Darvaza in Turkmenistan is home to a burning pit of gas known as “The Door to Hell”…

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Turkmenistan – Shovot, Turkmenistan

By steve in central asia, travel

Spent hours filling in forms to cross the border into Turkmenistan. Just over the border we stayed in a Korean families homestay, which turned out to be a mosquito filled, draughty old farmhouse with twelve beds and nothing else at all. They provided a decent meal, but I’m pretty unimpressed.

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