As you would expect, riding across the Turkmenistan desert
was hot and having to do 360 miles in this heat was tiring too. But one of the
highlights of the day had to be seeing the camels at the side of the road just
waiting for their photo to be taken. Well that is until you get off the bike
and point your camera in their direction, which they then turn and walk away,
but me being persistent in getting the photo I followed and even tried talking
to one asking the nice camel to stop for me which didn’t seem to help one jot
but eventually I got a photo whether it liked it or not.
When we arrived at the hotel it certainly looked very grand
standing opposite the palace, which you are not allowed to photograph for some
unexplained security reasons. In fact, you are not even allowed to walk on the
path next to it, and if you do one of the soldiers will immediately come and turn
you back around to the other side of the road. Also, internet access here is
restricted similar to China where FaceBook, WhatsApp and other social media
sites have access denied. I got around this using my VPN connection which I
then setup on two other group members laptops.
We have two nights here and on the second day there is a
city tour which I am not going on as I need to recover some energy by resting
my eyes and my stomach. However, I did manage a short walk amongst all the
marble buildings but it was very hot outside, so I shared a taxi back with two
others from our group that I met outside a bank.
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