Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) - Wink Travel Guide

Ashgabat is a showpiece capital. It has been designed, at the cost of billions of dollars, to show the world about the glories and accomplishments of the Turkmen.

The city looks like none other on Earth – a thoroughly artificial collection of white marble buildings across a long, dry valley.

At sunrise or sunset, there's a beauty to this uniform, outsized ambition, as if the set of a science-fiction film suddenly became an actual human settlement.

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