Tour Ashgabat-Nisa-Horse Farm-Ashgabat-Darvaza-State Historical Museum-Balkanabat-Yangikala Canyons-Gozli-Ata-Avaza-Turkmenbashi-Mary-Merv-Museum of Mary-Kerki-Koytendag-Dinosaur Plateau-Ashgabat
for 8 days

An accompanying guide will meet you at Ashgabat International Airport. In the first half of the day, you will visit the Akhal-Teke horse breeding farm. Here you can see Akhal-Teke horses. This is the pride of the Turkmen people. There are more than 30 beautiful horses on the kongeferm. Upon returning to Ashgabat, you will have an evening tour of the city.

Today's city tour includes a visit to the Ertugrul Mosque, Lenin Square, and the Russian Bazaar. After lunch, you will go to Darvaza. The path will pass through the Karakum desert. You will be able to visit the gas crater and enjoy an incredible view of the crater. The crater surprises with its beauty, warmth, and peaceful sounds created by this giant furnace. After the tour, you will return to Ashgabat. Overnight at the hotel.

After breakfast, you will have an excursion to the State Historical Museum. The museum is popular for ancient artifacts found during excavations of the settlements of Nisa, Merv, and Gonur-depe, a collection of ancient Turkmen carpets, rare samples of national clothing, jewelry, and antique weapons. You will be able to see statuettes of Athena, Eros, a silver gilded griffin, ivory vessels in the shape of horn-rhytons of the Parthian era, gold jewelry, medallion-stamps from Margiana, and Buddhist artifacts. They are exhibited in nine halls. There are also many fossilized pieces of Paleozoic wood dating back 270,000,000 years, dinosaur footprints, an 820 kg meteorite that fell in Kunya Urgench in 1998, and much more. You will visit the "Old Nisa" (the Sanctuary of the Parthian Kings), which was the capital of the Parthian Empire, which existed for 600 years and was the greatest enemy of the Roman Empire (a UNESCO site). Continue with the "Jipjak" Mosque and the Family Mausoleum of the first President of Turkmenistan. Return to the city of Ashgabat. Overnight at the hotel.

Today we will visit one of the most beautiful natural places in Turkmenistan – the Yangikala canyons, located 165 km north of Balkanabat and 160 km east of Turkmenbashi. The word "yangikala" means "fiery fortresses" in Turkmen. It got its name because of the sheer cliffs of white, yellow, ochre, purple, and red. The rocks resemble stone castles from science fiction movies. At sunset, you will get a fascinating panoramic view. During this period of the day, everything is painted a fiery red. Once, the depth of the canyons was equal to the depth of the ancient sea. At the end of the tour, you will go to Avaza. On the way, you will make a stop in Turkmenbashi for rest. In a vase, you will have a free vacation on the Caspian Sea.

In the morning you will have a free rest on the Caspian Sea. At 12:00 departure you will go to Turkmenbashi, from there you will have a flight to Ashgabat. Upon arrival, you will visit the Russian Bazaar, Lenin Square.

In the morning, you will go to the Mary district. On the way, you will be able to see the ruins of the Seyid Jamal ad-Din mosque, built in 1456 at the expense of a certain Mohammed Hudayr. Then you will have an excursion to the ancient city of Abiverd. Abiverd is one of the eight historical reserves of Turkmenistan, comparable to Kunya-Urgench, Nyssa, Dead, and Dahistan. The ruins of Abiverd are located between Ashgabat and Mary. Then you will have an excursion to Ancient Merv, located on the former banks of the Murghab River, which was the most important node of the Silk Road. He received the highest flourishing under the Seljuk governor, Sanjar. The name Merv comes from the collective name of five urban centers that existed in different periods from the VI century BC to the XVIII century AD. You will also visit the Museum of the History of Mary, and you will have a tour of the city of Mary. At the end of the tour, you will go to the railway station.

The tour will start with a mountain trip through the Koitendag Gorge. Koytendag is considered the birthplace of the highest mountains of Turkmenistan, the deepest lake, the longest caves and the most majestic natural waterfalls in the country. Koitendag Nature Reserve is a huge geological research center, the pride of which is a rocky plateau with hundreds of dinosaur tracks. You will also visit the Kyrkgyz cave.

Transfer to airport and flight.