Walk around the Ashgabat suburbs and you soon come across of clusters of satellite dishes clinging to buildings like mushrooms to a tree. How do consumers …



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Brands we know and love, Barf soap powder can be found across the old Soviet republics.
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Turkmenistan only has one style of long license plate, which I presume is issued by a central authority – which means that the many 4WD’s …
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There’s something about checking into a hotel where you know the rooms are bugged, or at the very least used to be. Read the opening …
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Don’t ask me how, but I somehow ended up at the annual Turkmenistan sports day gala and prize giving. I suspect every culture has its …
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One of the subconscious challenges of a heavy travel schedule is in constantly recalibratung to the ebb and flow of different traffic norms. In the …
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It’s difficult to photograph scrubland desert, and even trickier to document a hole/crater from ground level – hence photographing a hole in the desert is …
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In one of my more obscure life experiences – picked up a heavily tattooed Ukrainian guide + 4WD and headed deep into this desert to …
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Trying to get to grips with the monumental architecture of Ashgabat.
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