thank you !! , you brought back so much memories.. i really havent seen somebody document it on a streetlevel and tourist perspective as you did. props !

Hi Justin. I really enjoy your videos! I will be going to turkmenistan in 10 days time, really looking forward to it now. I will be staying at the same hotel as you did, and also visiting the market you mentioned. Thanks for the videos.

Depends what kind of experience you want. I visited Uzbekistan a few years ago and planning for Turkmenistan this summer. Ashgabat is rather unique with its modern architecture (if you like such, consider also Astana in Kazakhstan) but if you are interested in Silk Road feeling, go for Uzbekistan as there are more and bigger historic sites (Khiva, Samarkand, Bukhara). I would have thought that Uzb has more Central Asian feeling, but that is a pure feelingwithout the personal experience by now.

I would love to visit soon our brotherhood :)

thanks for making the vid, always like a foreign perspective of a place

Thanks for this video

Great review sir.

there are many nightclubs and cinema in Ashgabat(Abad), u are just walking on working days and noon. walk at night Abad. it's amazing beautiful city. p.s. Brit pubmy favorite place/

that's my hometown, so welcome. if you can talk in russian, turkish or even english u will find friends to hang out

waw great dude...good going and great sights....u were like lone ranger there....

@ziaulmonsur

7 жыл бұрын

How a statue set up before a mosque? What kinda Muslim they are permit setting statue of man just before a mosque?

@vampire1111pitbull

6 жыл бұрын

He and Kim Jong un swap spit and take long showers together. What pathetic douche bags.

Where are all the people?

@Iranian.Shia-kurd

6 жыл бұрын

Yugo It looks like an empty city

@mehmetcakmak1445

6 жыл бұрын

the weather +45° , so any people?)

@shohrat1114

6 жыл бұрын

the population is under one million

Turkmenistan gives its citizens free water , electricity and other utilities and it has one of the most cheapest fuel prices

@vampire1111pitbull

6 жыл бұрын

VOLVOX Gaming this may be so. But at least I can walk around my town. And if I wanted to insult the leader of my country I could without being shot. Lol . I'll keep my United states of America every second of every day over a douche bag run yard ornament.

@macdeep8523

6 жыл бұрын

Please give me your reserve currency status , I can make every country like USA ....

@vampire1111pitbull

6 жыл бұрын

Macdeep That makes no sense. Although. The United states of America is the wealthiest country in the world. Our people live free. We never have to fear being beaten or killed for speaking our mind. Your ruler or dictator is a complete DICK HEAD. you cant admit it but I can. He thinks he's so great at everything he does. I challenge him to anything and everything. And I'd bet my fortune against his fortune I can beat him like a dog in everything he chooses. I can make him look like the fool he actually is.

looks great, but the city itself looks sooooo boring, there is not even a single soul in the streets, little to no traffic...where the hell is everybody?

Glad you enjoyed the video. Go to my webiste to you read also read my book about visiting all the Stans!

So close to Iran just 30KM away. A tourist can't leave the city without reporting to Ministry of Immigration. You have to go according to schedule on a tourist visa. Soviet style tactics for getting a visa.

this was totally awesome; we love the fresh in the face comments - thanks for posting and traveling. We just shared this with friends on twitter and our site asiareport.com Compliments!

Hey great vid definitely helpful+ were are u from?

You are right ! Simon Bolivar was a liberator and the people seems to praise him even if he was president for life. Charle V was a divine right king (correct me if i'm wrong) and he was known to be generous , devoted to the poor and gentle. to a certain extent , Caius Julius Caesar, was glorified during his reign and extent the life of the empire for several years, even if he was a dictator then a dictator for life.

I'm considering travelling here what would it hold for a 16 year old ? It looked very interesting and if I went I'd take a lot of photos of the Ex president status and some ex-communist buildings,etc should I go ?

Cool I plan to visit turmenbashi and Ashgabat

oh! food is good, many different national kitchens. all country is like NatGeo or Discovery channel

I want to go there as a tourist, hows the food, whats to buy and whats to see there?

But how is the food? Do they have Subway or Dairy Queen?

where are the people?

@orazgeldibeglanov6443

6 жыл бұрын

travman387 they gone

@shohrat1114

6 жыл бұрын

the population is under one million

@slobodangligorijevic4385

6 жыл бұрын

Damn I asked the same.. Ghost city... Free water and food for all 3 citizens...

It's like the world's biggest gilded cage.

Hey guys, im trying to decide between Turmenistan and Uzbekistan. I hear Uzbekistan has more historical sites like Samarqand and Bukhara, but it is also much more under lingering communist Russian influence, where Turkmenistan is a better picture of Central Asia? which one should i choose?

I wish you have enjoyed your time there! You look so worried and I can understand that. Hope you had a good guide there! As you might have noticed, you definitely need someone who actually can explain you the city and culture and obviously sights. Its not just quite similar like those tourist cities in Central Asian cities are quite different. Dont bother those bad comments as always trying to express their feelings by commenting only by word rather than contributing it. Let me know definetely.

come on man, i think there are more night clubs per capita than anywhere in Europe. it is pity no body showed you around. but no decent cinema that is right.

Do you need a guide in Turkmenistan, I read you had to have one to go around as a tourist. Evidently you didn't. Let me know!

Why is it so empty everywhere and how are the prices?

@shohrat1114

6 жыл бұрын

the population of city is under one million

Why is everything so lonely? Here in Mexico, even the smallest park is always crowded.

@shohrat1114

6 жыл бұрын

the population is under one million

North Koreastan

yulduz usmanova''mayda-mayda''

@totoledjay : Countries aren't dictator, Dictator aren't all bad. Not only of Democracy is good look at Africa: specific West and East Africa in Comparison to the most recent country that almost compared to dictatorship in Africa, South Africa. West and East African Countries have Democracy but are far worse off than South African or Turkemenistan. Consider this constructive-criticism.

I agree with you, Uzbekistan is probobly where i will go. Turkmenistan and even Khazakstan looks very uniform and depressing ( no offense to anyone !) as one would expect a country under dictatorial rule, it didnt seems like a tourist place. While UZbekistan has similar problems, it has more beautiful pre-Communist era buildings and historical significance.

no, actually we don't have any of them )

Where are the people!?!

oh really? you like Uzbek songs?

@RovexHD

8 жыл бұрын

He thought it was turkmen song

@Flixorus

7 жыл бұрын

Ihlas Sadykov whats the song name ?

our people are not walking around. that;s not good. everyone is working till afternonn or evening

they are not illigal, who told u that? that's not true ( it's my hometown, i know it like my 5 fingers

most of these central asian countries have only few million people.

theres only 5 million people living in the whole country which is like nothing

You need to notice that South Africa's probably 2000x more of a democracy than Turkmenistan. At least people have decent civil rights there.

How a statue set up before a mosque? What kinda Muslim they are permit setting statue of man just before a mosque?

@idiotic1021

6 жыл бұрын

Shut up with your Wahhabi crap. Turkmenistan is a secular country.

@SNFDNSD

6 жыл бұрын

Years of Communism

oh come on! where did u say u r from??? then comment on ur own country! and what about strangeness, maybe u r strange person and not the country! U r just being jealous that's it! Cause we have the greatest country in the world!

@exacerbatedfellow1236

6 жыл бұрын

Why is it the greatest? Lol

@slobodangligorijevic4385

6 жыл бұрын

It is one of the greatest with freedom and rights. One of few which american democrasy did not destroy yet... Arhitecture... Wideness... So much place. I would like to visit it. I am Serbian. My country is older then 7000 years and I know a lot about old cultures. Not like Vatikan shitty propaganda and imagionated Stonehenge(1954.)"old" civilisations... Abi your Country looks GREAT!!

@vampire1111pitbull

6 жыл бұрын

Ali Hamrayev At least I can comment on my own country without fear of torture lol. If I wanted to call my President a douche I could. Can you? I live in the greatest country on the planet. The United states of America. Land of the Free. And greatest President that we have ever had. God Bless President Donald Trump.

To all the people on here who aren't from Turkmenistan, why the fuck are you complaining about its political system? You don't live there and no one is forcing you to visit. If you're afraid then don't go lol

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5 жыл бұрын

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