Do you miss travel, want novelty and fresh impressions, yet international flights have been interrupted? Well, travel does not always involve long-distance routes by plane and train. You can also discover something new within the city. We offer you the top 5 attractions of the capital of Turkmenistan that will impress even the indigenous Ashgabat people.
1.The fountain complex “Oguzkhan and Sons” is a real visiting card of the capital of Turkmenistan.It is located in the center of a large road junction at the entrance to Ashgabat International Airport.
This year marks exactly 10 years since the fountain complex was entered into the Guinness Book of Records.Meeting and seeing off guests of the capital, the architectural and sculptural ensemble “Oguzkhan and Sons” became famous as uniting the largest number of fountains in a public place.
2.The Ertogrulgazy Mosque is a Muslim temple built in the Turkish style, which looks like the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.It was opened in Ashgabat in 1998 and is located on Azadi Street, so local residents also call it the Azadi Mosque.
The structure is impressive both inside and out.It is made in the old Islamic-Byzantine style.The mosque is adorned with four snow-white minarets, and a massive central dome rises between them.
3.The health trail is a pedestrian path in the foothills of the Kopetdag; although it is not the closest route, but you can get to it by public transport.
And believe me the views that open on different kilometers of this road are worth the journey.The Kopet Dag mountains growing one after another, a convenient walking route and a spectacular panorama of Ashgabat, are able to awaken exciting impressions again and again.
It’s like a “live theater” a theater of nature, and just as there are no equally played performances, the landscapes are also unique here, changing depending on the current weather.
4.The cable car “Asma yoly”, located at an altitude of 1270 meters above sea level, as if invites you to a heavenly fairy tale.City travelers who have been in these parts speak with great enthusiasm about the cable car.
It is good to go here at any time of the year, at the top it is always cool and windy.In the spring you will be greeted by a luxurious carpet of blossoming and fragrant mountain poppies.
The length of the heavenly “highway” is 4 kilometers, in winter the mountains are covered with snow caps and the impression that you are storming Elbrus does not leave you all the way.
5.Botanical Garden just don’t say: “Oh, what have we not seen there?!”.Ashgabat Botanical Garden is the place where you want to return again and again.
The kingdom of nature or an ecological island, which ORIENT described in detail this summer, was opened for visitors in updated decoration.Convenient footpaths, clean air, meditative silence and soft rustle of age-old trees, what could be more beautiful for a city rest?