3 days tour - From Marble Cities to Desert Fires

Our representative will meet you at the International Airport and transfer to the hotel. In the morning you’ll visit Old Nissa. 18 km to the west from Ashgabat there overlook the ruins of Nisa, the capital of ancient Parthia, existed at the turn of the I millennium BC and I millennium AD. In the III century BC New Nisa was the capital of Parthia and the Old Nisa fortress was an imperial re sidence at that time. Old Nisa was the place where palace and temple buildings were concentrated. There also located a treasury, huge wine warehouse and storerooms with numerous stocks. The fortress at Nisa was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007. On the way back to the city you’ll visit the biggest mosque of Turkmenistan located in Gypjak village. The mosque which was constructed in 2004, was named “The Spiritual mosque of Turkmenbashi. Near the mosque, there is the Turkmenbashi Mausoleum – more modest in décor and size. The first President of Turkmenistan – Saparmyrat Turkmenbashi is buried in the central sarcophagus, and around it, there are three more sarcophagi with his mother and two brothers, and one in addition, which is empty – a symbolic sarcophagus with the name of Turkmenbashi’s father, buried in another place. Afternoon you’ll visit the National museum of Turkmenistan. The Museum of History and Ethnography has ancient artifacts found at the excavations of Nisa, Merv and Gonur, collection of vintage Turkmen carpets, rare examples of national clothing, jewelries, and antique weapons. The 9 halls display figurines of Athens, Eros, silver gilded griffin, horn-shaped ivory vessels-rhytons of the Parthian era, gold jewelries and medallions-stamps from Margiana, and Buddhist artifacts. There are also a fossilized piece of wood of the Paleozoic period, aged 270,000,000, dinosaurs’ footprints, an 820-kg meteorite, fallen in Kunya-Urgench in 1998, etc.

Then you’ll have Ashgabat city tour. Ashgabat is world famous for its marble architecture of the independence period. Many modern structures in the Turkmen capital, including not only buildings, but also monuments and sculptures, have already become the main city’s attractions, while some of them were even recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as “best of the best”. You will visit Ertogrul Gazy Mosque, Monument and park of Independence, Arch of Neutrality, Constitution Monument, “Alem” cultural and entertainments center. Along the way you will see Presidential Palace, Ruhiyet Palace and Ashgabat 2017 Sports and Housing facilities.  Overnight at hotel