Monday, June 30, 2025

Photos from Turkmenistan

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I’m still not sure what made this trip so impactful. It felt far far away and very different. I had lots of time to travel alone on either ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Visiting Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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This trip really touched me. Perhaps it was the fascinating totally differentness of the place. I also think it was having so many days to w...
Sunday, April 06, 2025

Daily life in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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  The irony of Defying Gravity coming up on my phone as I look at a group young Turkmen college aged women and ponder their totally controll...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

Giggling about the possibility of getting Tik Tok famous

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  That time when the ladies at the restaurant were looking over my shoulder checking out the pictures on my phone and giggling, then asked m...

A NYC moment in Ashgabat

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When I travel I definitely like being from New York City! I love when people ask where I’m from I can just say that and don’t even need to s...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Islam in Turkmenistan

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Turkmenistan is 95% Muslim, but it is a secular country. During the Soviet times religion was repressed and many of the mosques were closed ...

NYC fans in Turkmenistan

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Spotted this t-shirt on a woman waiting for the bus in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, asked to take a picture, which led to a lovely conversation. ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Visiting Turkmenistan Ruhy Mosque

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  Built in 2004 by Turkmenistan’s first post Soviet leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, or later self named Türkmenbaşy, Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque in ...

Learning about Women in Ashgabat

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  I spent one day in Ashgabat with a female guide and she and I had fun chatting about what life is like for women in Turkmenistan and NYC. ...

Reflecting on being a girl in Turkmenistan

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The irony of Defying Gravity coming up on my phone as I look at a group young Turkmen college aged women and ponder their totally controlled...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Visiting the American Center in Ashgabat

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  I went to this American Center in Ashgabat, that the Embassy must run. It’s a library and a place with full internet. I guess it builds go...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Visiting Nisa

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  The UNESCO World Heritage site, the Fortresses of Nisa, are one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Next stop: Gates of Hell in Darvasa

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  Located In the Karakum Desert in the center of Turkmenistan, the Gates of Hell crater was created in 1971 when a Soviet drilling rig accid...

Visiting a grocery store in Dasoguz

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Our first stop in Turkmenistan was Kunya-Urgench a historical area that is now a religious pilgrimage site The area attracted many locals wh...

Dasoguz, Turkmenistan

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  We spent our first night in Dasoguz and began to see how Turkmenistan was going to be a very unusual place to visit. I had read about how ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Environmental Degradation of the Turkmanistan Border

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I’ve heard over and over again in recent times that the next world wars will be fought over access to water. In Central Asia’s five landlock...

Day 1: Kunya - Urgench

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  Our first stop in Turkmenistan was Kunya-Urgench a historical area that is now a religious pilgrimage site The area attracted many locals ...

Crossing the Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan Border

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           Traveling into Turkmenistan, one of the least visited countries in the world, meant standing in line at the land border crossing ...

Uzbekistan Photos

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I 've always wanted to travel the Silk Road and see the beautiful tiles in Uzbekistan for many years and even with all the expectation t...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Khiva, Uzbekistan

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  Next stop, Khiva. An 8 hour drive from Bukhara lies another little city with its own flavor, including being the part of the country with ...