... Kara-Kum desert, and colorful patterned wool carpets, a wonderful jedwiabiu, dogs, Alabama (wolfhounds Turkmen) ...

The climate of Turkmenistan can be described as dry pozwrotnikowy. Over 80% of the country covered the Kara-Kum desert. Precipitation is low, occur mainly from January to May. In Turkmenistan, for about 260 days a year sun shines. Winters are mild and rare in the South, the temperature drops below ^-5 ° C. However, in summer reaches 40 ^° C. e are in V cx X Small States and Big Lake Balkhash in the East - Gissarskiego back branches on the south-east - the foothills Paropamiza. I have a dog X pristine mountains, deep caves and get to know people still living in accordance with their tribal traditions.

April-May, when the desert bloom, and temperatures are moderate.

For National Turkmen poet considered Machtumkulego that lived in the mid-nineteenth century. Machtumkuli, like his followers, for what is considered Sejtanzara Seidi and Kurbandurdę Zelili, went beyond the narrow confines of conventionality, a characteristic of Persian poetry, which was modeled on the earlier poetry Turkmen. After connecting Turkmenistan to the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth century, the main place in the poetry deals with social and political satire.

Turkmen literature and drama has evolved only in the Soviet times. Literature of this period, praised the achievements of socialism: the rights of women, collectivization, and later the Soviet victory in World War II. Among the artists of this period, distinguished poet, novelist and playwright - Kerbabajew Berdy.

Most residents of Turkmenistan (ok. 90%) are Sunni Muslims. Ok. 9% is a minority church.

Tukmeni as one of the first in the Central Asia region have adopted Islam, no less in Turkmenistan is varied depending on the region. Were nomadic peoples of Turkmenistan and the basis of their performance were based tribal. Determined the course of history tribal relations today are almost as important as religious dogmas. Even urban dwellers clearly indicate their tribal affiliation, but in remote parts of the country's attachment to clan and tribe defines all social relations. Each tribal group has its own dialect, unique way of dressing and the type of jewelry, embroidery and carpet weaving - to the untrained eye to distinguish, but recognize the signs of well-Turkmen nationality klanowej.Turkmeni are very attached to their traditional clothing. Until now, many people in this country with evident pleasure wear traditional fur papachy long zippered robes and loose, like pantaloons, pants. Women often wear long silk dresses, striped trousers, hiding her hair under the light scarves and shawls.

Many traditions accompany the life of Turkmen communities and individual families. One of the main events are the celebration of marriage. In some rural regions, where elements are still preserved traditions of nomadism Turkmen times, weddings are organized by the special representatives of individual families. Kałym is a traditional buyout, which is liable to pay the bride's parents betrothed. The wedding itself lasts several days and involved several hundred guests.

Carpet weaving is another, very old Turkmen traditions. For the Turkmens, leading a nomadic way of life, the carpet was the only "furniture", which took with him on the road. They were necessary for people constantly moving, because of the ease in transport and heat, which guaranteed them when sealed inside of the wall tents, "Penalty-oj". Padded them "floor" of temporary houses, served as a blanket. Superb and intricate designs on carpets, specific to individual tribes, constituted a kind of family business card. Difficult art of weaving, handed down from generation to generation, and the ability to carpet weaving was considered one of the most important potential bride zalte. So far in Turkmenistan carpets are almost sacred thing, even on the flag of this country are present in typical design themes of carpets. The most beautiful carpets auentyczne is a masterpiece, so one should not be surprised at their very high prices.

Turkmens are masters of riding, it's hard to imagine without the inherent animal Turkman. Local proverb says that a horse is a member of the family. The attachment to the Turkmen horses have Herodotus wrote.

Russian is used by 12% of the population and the international contacts. 9% speak Uzbek.

Coming to Turkmenistan not to be reckon with the possibility to communicate in English.

98% of the population.

In Turkmenistan, the majority of the population can communicate in Russian.

Visas are issued by consular Turkmenistan units on the basis of calls from individuals or legal persons.

Invitations must be confirmed by the Migration Turkmen. The cost of a visa varies, depending on the times and the term of validity, from about. 30 to over $ 500. The deadline to issue a visa up to 10 working days.

Entering the Turkmen customs declaration must be completed, which then will be re-checked upon departure.

In Poland there is no Embassy of Turkmenistan, the nearest are in Kiev, Berlin, Vienna and Moscow.

Ukraine:

st. Pushkin 6

UKR-252034

Kiev

Tel: +380 (44) 293449, 2286870, 2293363

Fax: +380 (44) 2293034

Russia:

Filippovskij per. 22

RUS-121019

Moskwatel: +7 (095) 2916591, 2916636, 2911544, 2916593, 2911356

Fax: +7 (095) 2910935, 2910166

Germany:

Langobardenalle

14, D-14052 Berlin

Tel: +49 (30) 30102451 / 2

Fax: +49 (30) 30102453

Austria:

Argentinierstr22

2EG, A-1040 Vienna

Tel: +43 (1) 5036470.2

Fax: +43 (1) 5036473

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Azadi 17 A, 744 005

Tel.: +993 12 274035, +993 12 276552

Tel. duty: +993 66497127

Fax: +993 12 273122

aszchabad.amb.sekretariat @ msz.gov.pl www.aszchabad.polemb.net

After crossing the Turkmen border, within 72 hours to register their arrival at the appropriate office.

Customs control is generally very meticulous and takes a long time. When shopping, you should ask the vendor to certify that the goods have been paid twrdą currency, which should speed up customs formalities.

Some attractive tourist places are located in border areas, or military, for which admission requires special permission from the Office for Migration. A request for such authorization may be made by a tourist company. Most places where you can get only having such a permit are: Kojtendag, Magdanly, Konje Urgench, caracal, Serhetabad.

Health care in Turkmenistan is very low and outside the cities is very difficult to find.

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Tel: +7 (095) 2916591, 2916636, 2911544, 2916593, 2911356

Fax: +7 (095) 2910935, 2910166

Germany:

Langobardenalle

14, D-14052

Berlin

Tel: +49 (30) 30102451 / 2

Fax: +49 (30) 30102453

Austria:

Argentinierstr. 22

2EG, A-1040

Vienna

Tel: +43 (1) 5036470.2

Fax: +43 (1) 5036473

Ambulance and emergency services combined in 2003

Please note that summer boiled or bottled drinking water, because there is a risk of poisoning.

There is a risk of earthquake. Turkmenistan is a country more secure, but, as elsewhere, there is a risk of theft pocket. For this reason, we make a copy of the home page of the passport and visa page. You may also not imply that you have money or expensive equipment.
There is a risk of earthquake. Turkmenistan is a country more secure, but, as elsewhere, there is a risk of theft pocket. For this reason, we make a copy of the home page of the passport and visa page. You may also not imply that you have money or expensive equipment.

Turkmenistan is not involved in any domestic or international konfilkty. Since the mid-90s has the status of a neutral State, awarded by the UN.

Militia 2003

For safety, better to avoid the dimly lit alleys. Turkmenistan is a country of transit of Afghan drugs smuggling.

The only way to get into Turkmenistan is a plane.

The international airport is located in Ashgabat (ASB). The main airlines operating in this direction is SAS Lufhansa, China Southern Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Turkmenian Airlines, Uzbekistan Airlines, United Airlines.

There are no trains to run from Turkmenistan.

For Turkmenistan, not buses.

There is open for tourists vehicle crossings.

Communication support the connection between the local airport in Ashgabat, Daszoguzie, Marach, Turkmenabadzie and Turkmenbashi.

Trains do not run. You can train to move only between big cities. Tickets are very cheap (about. $ 1).

When a country runs a number of buses.

Turkmenistan Navigating the car can be cumbersome, since the state of roads leaves much to be desired, and over the absence of any direction and traffic signs, which can easily get lost.

The Internet is very poorly developed.

In Turkmenistan, working post office, courier companies and the branches of government have been liquidated by Decision.
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In Turkmenistan, only in 2007 opened the first Internet cafes, which in the whole country is now about 20. s, 2 e X tions can get lost.

Turkmen manat (TMT) = 100 tango

Mostly cash. Often you can pay hard currency.

Prices vary widely, but it is for foreign tourists remain very low. It is best to buy fruit directly from the cars on the market or the traders digesting their wares on the streets.

Potatoes 1kg 3000-3500 manatees

Carrots 1kg 3,000 manatees

cucumbers 3000-4000 manatees

3000-5000 tomatoes manatees

apple manatees 2000-3000

peaches manatees 18000-20000

1l juice imported from Russia or Moldova manatees 17500-24000

1 liter of milk in the market 3000-3500 manatees - is usually sold in 1.5 liter bottles of beverage

white cheese manatees 1000-12000

25000-28000 meat manatees

20000-25000 sausage manatees

10 pcs eggs. 6000-9000 manatees

800 manatees brown bread

1,000 manatees light bread

Mineral water manatees 3500-4000

Coca-Cola 1.5 L 10000-11000 manatees

Wine Turkmenistan 1l 8000-1000 manatees

Vodka local manatees 18000-22000

In the bazaars, offering a cornucopia of colors and oriental scents.

Carpets and rugs, silk goods, gourmet handmade cognac in bottles in the shape of swords, for example, Turkmen, zodiac signs, or even mobile phones. You might also obtain the clothing, primarily bawałniane, denim and silk, which are in Turkmenistan Fits cheap.

People over 16 years of age may bring in 200 cigarettes from Turkmenistan or 200g of tobacco.

Persons 21 years or older may also bring any alcoholic beverages 2l.

The trip to Turkmenistan's best to bring U.S. dollars, while important to check before departure, whether they are new notes, "irregularities" and without blemishes. It is good to have with each low-denomination banknotes. Another currency, the euro is concerned, it is difficult to replace. The safest course is to exchange U.S. dollars at banks and exchange offices przyhotelowych

Hotels can be found only in large cities.

None.

None.

Not available for tourists.

The 3-gwiazkowym Hotel in Ashgabat night 2-bed room costs $ 43, single room $ 72.

Foreigners can only stop in hotels, in turn, can be found only in large cities.

Nomadic way of life and the harsh living conditions in the desert had a devastating effect on the nature of culinary tadycji Turkmen. One of the main features of the Turkmen cuisine is simplicity as in the choice of ingredients, as well as how to cook.

The most popular dish is the deer, which prepares a young lamb, carrots, rice and onions. Equally widespread is szurpa dish - lamb broth with potatoes and tomatoes. In particular, refer to the Turkmen bread, whose preparation is an art. Tandyr - stove, which is traditionally baked bread - czoreka, is considered the holiest place throughout the home. Like other countries of Central Asia, Turkmenistan is famous for its vegetables and fruits. His greatest fruit of the fields are Turkmen melons with honey flavors, which accounted for Turkmen export commodity in times doislamskich.Słodycze - nawat, or melted sugar, bemeks made with grape juice and arbuzowego and the sweetness of a kind chałwy prepared from the roots of plants called "cherry" and vegetable juices and spices. Local delicacy are chocolates filled with dried melon.
The most popular dish is the deer, which prepares a young lamb, carrots, rice and onions. Equally widespread is szurpa dish - lamb broth with potatoes and tomatoes. In particular, refer to the Turkmen bread, whose preparation is an art. Tandyr - stove, which is traditionally baked bread - czoreka, is considered the holiest place throughout the home. Like other countries of Central Asia, Turkmenistan is famous for its vegetables and fruits. His greatest fruit of the fields are Turkmen melons with honey flavors, which accounted for Turkmen export commodity in times doislamskich.Słodycze - nawat, or melted sugar, bemeks made with grape juice and arbuzowego and the sweetness of a kind chałwy prepared from the roots of plants called "cherry" and vegetable juices and spices. Local delicacy are chocolates filled with dried melon.

Camel milk and made it cooler led this.

It is worth to eat in restaurants offering local cuisine. Do not be too guided by the principle that the more expensive restaurant, the better. Often, small bars and restaurants offer better quality and more traditional food.

Dependent on their own discretion.

The Turkmen restaurants is given a very cheap and good caviar - you have to try this!

Turkmenistan's biggest attractions are the ruins of Nis, Karliuskie caves and dunes of the Kara Kum. Nevertheless, the whole of Turkmenistan is extremely attractive for the discerning traveler, because of its original niezunifikowanie Orientalism and tourist accommodation with the Western pattern.

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Representatives of expressive folk culture of the Turkmen are bachszowie, musicians, singing and playing for dutarze (Existing bilateral guitar). Bachszowie always been very respected in Turkmenistan. Move between villages, and in every village, people cook in advance to accept bachszów: come up with questions and conversation topics, prepares a place for the show, refreshments, etc.. Folk songs is an old genre of art. They represent different aspects of national life. Popular is a national epic - Destan, a musical and poetic tale, fairy tales, legends, give that to recites półśpiewając. Individuality Turkmen music is expressed in a specific manner of singing - singers very stretch their vocal chords, singing a very high tone, and loud. Folklore is not only worth reading contemporary opera Turkmen unusual phenomenon for foreign tourists, because combines many species, in particular: the western genre classics and folk music tradition of the Turkmen.

It is also worthwhile to join their Russian Dramatic Theatre. A. Pushkin in Ashgabat.

In Turkmenistan, there is a huge number of caves, most famous of which is Karliuskie caves, a UNESCO World Heritage kulturu UNESCO.Sarakamysz - the largest lake in Turkmenistan ptaków.Kugitańskie reserve in advance, in któych is the highest peak in Turkmenistan - Ajribaba (3137m altitude). Large Balkans - a mountain range in the Karakum desert, where archaeologists have discovered human remains from the stone age. Sjunt mountains, covered with rare species of plants. The red and orange canyons and Jangusu.Kyrkdżulby Jangikała - scenic sacred spot in the desert of Kara-kum.Wydmy in the desert of Kara- kum.Missiriańska plain, on which traces of the old system irygacyjnego.W Turkmenistan are several large nature reserves: Badchyski, Repetekski, Krasnowodski and Kugitang. Flora of Turkmenistan is a relict forests, subtropical formations consisting of very rare plants.
In Turkmenistan, there is a huge number of caves, most famous of which is Karliuskie caves, a UNESCO World Heritage kulturu UNESCO.Sarakamysz - the largest lake in Turkmenistan ptaków.Kugitańskie reserve in advance, in któych is the highest peak in Turkmenistan - Ajribaba (3137m altitude). Large Balkans - a mountain range in the Karakum desert, where archaeologists have discovered human remains from the stone age. Sjunt mountains, covered with rare species of plants. The red and orange canyons and Jangusu.Kyrkdżulby Jangikała - scenic sacred spot in the desert of Kara-kum.Wydmy in the desert of Kara- kum.Missiriańska plain, on which traces of the old system irygacyjnego.W Turkmenistan are several large nature reserves: Badchyski, Repetekski, Krasnowodski and Kugitang. Flora of Turkmenistan is a relict forests, subtropical formations consisting of very rare plants.

1 January - New Year

January 12 - Memorial Day

January - Kurban-Bajram - Movable Feast

February 18 - Turkmenbashi birthday

Feb. 19 - National Flag Day

March 8 - International Women's Day

March 20 - Nowruz-Bajram (Turkmen New Year)

May 9 - Victory Day

May 18 - Constitution Day

June 21 - Day of the first elected president of the country

October 6 - Day of Remembrance for Victims of Earthquake in 1948

October 28 - Independence Day

October / November - Ramadan Bajram (End of Ramadan)

December 12 - Day of Neutrality

International Folklore Festival and theater

International film festival

Festival of Gifted Children

Silk Road Rally

In Turkmenistan, there is little disco and classic bars. Premises offering evening entertainment can be found mainly in Ashgabad and in hotels.

Clothes that protect us from the desert sand and dust, which is primarily a long-sleeved shirts, handkerchiefs.

Overall, the Western tourists from the north, the locals are well-disposed, courteous and helpful. This applies to what probably is an exception among the countries of the former USSR, including policemen, who approach the tourists but with caution and carefully check all the documents are not forced to bribe the slightest reason.