Tour Border Alyat/Farap-Mary-Ancient Merv-Ashgabat for 2 days

An accompanying guide will meet you at the Farap border/Alat in the morning at 09:00. From there you will go to the city of Mary. Today you will have an excursion to Ancient Merv, located on the former banks of the Murghab River, was the most important node of the Silk Road. He received the highest flourishing under the Seljuk governor Sanjar. The name of Merv comes from the collective name of five urban centers that existed under in different periods from the VI century BC to the XVIII century AD. Ancient Merv was one of the most important capitals of Islam along with Baghdad, Cairo and Damascus. 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. In the afternoon, you will visit the "Old Nisa"—the Sanctuary of the Parthian Kings. Nisa existed for 600 years and was the capital of the Parthian Empire. She was the greatest enemy of the Roman Empire. At the moment, it is a UNESCO site. The tour will continue with a visit to the Jipjak Mosque and the family mausoleum of the first President of Turkmenistan.