TSTavels

4 days 3 nights tour Ashgabat – Farap (or revers)

INCLUDED:
* Tour package (LOI, Register fee., permit fee)
* Accommodation: hotel early check-in – 3 nights (breakfast)
* Guide – 4 days
* Transport, transfers – 4 days
* Entry tickets to museums
* Daily water
* Fee for using cameras on monuments

NOT INCLUDED:

* Visa fee 55$-85$
* COVID-test 35$
* Private expenses, gratuities
* Meal, services
* Insurance

The cost of the tour package based on a 3-star hotel, $990 per 2 pax

DOUBLE room, breakfast included

Tour Program

Days

Day 1st. International Airport – Ashgabat

– landing to the Ashgabat International Airport (early morning).

- Tour guide will meet you with signboard at the meeting area and transfer to a hotel

- Early check-in and rest.

- Breakfast.

10.00 - Ashgabat City Tour starts with the historical monument “Old Nisa” fortress, which was the capital of the Parthian Empire (since 2007 under the protection of UNESCO) After excursions in Old Nisa fortress, a sightseeing tour of Ashgabat

- Ashgabat city tour include –

- The Old Nyssa fortress
-The Health trail in the mountains,
-The highest flagpole in the world at 133 meters –(in the Guinness Book) The size of the giant cloth of the State Flag of Turkmenistan is 52x35 m, weight – 420 kg.
- Olympic city (in the Guinness Book)
-Monument and park of Independence,
-Neutrality tower,
- Magtymguly monument and park
-Ferris wheel (in the Guinness Book) you can ride on,
-Earthquake victims complex,
-Wedding palace
-The sculptural ensemble depicting the founder of the Turkmen nation Oguzkhan and his six sons. This complex includes 27 light fountains, working synchronously thanks to special software (in the Guinness Book)
- International Airport (in the Guinness Book)
- Ertogrul Gazy (Turkish) mosque

Day 2nd. Ashgabat – Darvaza Gas crater

08.00 Breakfast at the hotel.
10.00 – visit the Museum of History and Ethnography of Turkmenistan. A tour of the museum with a professional guide will take 2 hours. Visiting the museum complex exposition is divided into 7 thematic galleries to store over a total of 166,000 unique exhibits, many of which are of special historical and cultural importance.

15.00 – drive toward Darvaza Gas Crater

Drive to Darvaza – Gas Crater, which is a huge flaming crater located 270 km (4 hours) to the north of Ashgabat. Continue with moving to the Water and Gas Craters. In the evening, enjoy the spectacular and fascinating view of the Gas Crater. In order to truly enjoy this end of the world, it is best to arrive at the Gate after sunset. Only in the dark is the full beauty of this phenomenon revealed.
Stay in the camp with tasty catering – dinner picnic style – the perfect way to enjoy this highlight. Observe the fantastic view of the crater during daylight and at night, feel the heat, and listen to the sound that this giant oven creates. Overnight at the camp, in a yurt.

Day 3rd, Darwaza - Ashgabat

- Early morning breakfast at the camp.
- departure from the camp, travel time is 4 hours, distance 270 km

Before reaching Ashgabat we can visit the Eastern Bazaar (at your request), shopping and buying national souvenirs - all of them handmade things.

- Arrival in Ashgabat. Transfer to the hotel, check in and short rest

- visiting Akhal-teke horses farm
– free time
– overnight at the hotel

Day 4, Ashgabat – Mary\Merv – Farap border

– early breakfast at the hotel.
- drive to Mary city by car
- visit an Ancient Merv (UNESCO World Heritage Site). One of the major archaeological sites of Central Asia, Merv played an important part in the development of the Silk Road for more than 2 000 years. On the territory of Merv there are unique fortresses that belong to different eras. They differ in size and degree of preservation. Erk-kala (VI century BC), Gyaur-kala (III century), Kyz-kala (VI century), Sultan-kala (XI century), Abdullakhan-kala (XV century), Bairamalikhan-kala (presumably eighteenth century).

Drive (by car) to the Lebap province , to the border of TM and Uzb