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Photos from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Asia

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In the main park
In the main park
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Art
Building in town
Poet Hero
Poet Hero
Poet Hero
Ashgabat at night
Ashgabat at night
Ashgabat at night
Along the main boulevard to the museum
Wedding palace
Turkmenbashi's statue
Turkmenbashi's golden statue and one of many fonts
Within the museum arcade
View from museum of the white city
One of many marble edifices
Silk road rug
Pas' birthday celebration
The bride and groom and family and friends
Wedding party
Car decorated for wedding
Fountains outside mosque
Massive mosque
Turkmenbashi's mausoleum
Nissa -- arcades and walls
Artifacts
A view of Nissa
Seeking shelter from the sun
Within Nissa -- rebuilt columns
Within Nissa -- remaining detail
Within Nissa -- round building (rebuilt walls)
Within Nissa -- round building (rebuilt walls)
Within Nissa -- arcade
Within Nissa -- some original blocks
Within Nissa
Within Nissa
Rebuilt buildings of Nissa
Walls of Nissa
Path through Nissa
Nissa
The family in Turkish Air lounge
Turkish Air Lounge -- the best ever!
Pas at SFO
Ldies in national dress they wear it to work
Monument and fountain ine one
but not the Communist Party archives
You an always find Lenin
Soldiers guarding a monument
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Brief history of Turkmenistan
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Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a Soviet republic in 1924. It achieved its independence upon the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. President NIYAZOV retains absolute control over the country and opposition is not tolerated...more history

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