3-Day Ashgabat and Darvaza Tour with Konye-Urgench

• Meet the group at Ashgabat International Airport and transfer to the hotel for check-in and rest.
• Enjoy lunch before beginning the guided city tour with a professional Turkmen guide.
• Visit the National Museum of History and Ethnography to learn about Turkmen culture and heritage.
• Explore the Carpet Museum, home to the largest collection of Turkmen carpets in the world.
• Discover rare carpets dating from medieval times to the twentieth century, including over 1,000 pieces from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
• See traditional carpet articles such as chuvals, khurjuns, and torba.
• Admire the famous hand-woven carpet recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest in the world.
• Enjoy dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight stay at the hotel in Ashgabat.

• Breakfast at the hotel at 9:00 am.
• Drive to explore the ancient ruins of Nisa, dating from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD.
• Visit Gypjak Mosque and pay respects at the mausoleum of Turkmenistan's first President.
• Lunch at a local restaurant.
• Late afternoon drive to the Darvaza Gas Crater, located approximately 270 kilometres north of Ashgabat.
• Witness the dramatic flaming crater, famously known as the Gates of Hell.
• Enjoy breathtaking evening views of the smouldering gas crater.
• Picnic-style dinner near the crater.

Overnight stay in a tent under the starry desert sky.

• Enjoy an early picnic-style breakfast at the campsite.
• Transfer to the ancient city of Konye-Urgench.
• Drive north through Turkmenistan for approximately four hours.
• On arrival, explore the architectural monuments of Konye-Urgench, the former capital of Khorezm from the tenth to twelfth centuries.
• Visit the mausoleums of Najm al-Din al-Kubra, Tyurabek Khanum, Il-Arslan, and Tekesh Ibn Hadzhibey.
• See the impressive Qutlug Timur Minaret, the tallest minaret in Central Asia.
• Lunch at a local restaurant in Konye-Urgench.
• Drive to the Turkmen-Uzbek border at Dashoguz or Shawat.
• Border crossing scheduled between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm.