Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A day in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan)
This is a weird place; I understand the Lonely Planet refers to it as cross between Vegas and Pyongyang; to me it feels like you're wandering through an architects model; there are hardly any other people to be seen except the cleaners who look after the gardens and sweep the streets, to be fair though there are some stunning buildings and there's no graffiti and no drunken yobos. They don't allow data services not even GPRS an...