Turkmenistan is one of the most beautiful cities of the world, recently included into the Guinness Book of Records as the Most-White Marble City in the World. You will visit the capital parks and monuments, impressive mosques and other iconic buildings. Drive to the Nissa Fortress, declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007. The State Museum of Turkmenistan stores ancient artifacts found at the excavations of the settlements Nisa, Merv and Gonurdepe, a collection of vintage Turkmen carpets, rare examples of national clothing, jewelry, and antique weapons. There is also a fossilized piece of wood of the Paleozoic period, dinosaurs’ footprints, an 820-kg meteorite that came down in Kunya-Urgench. A drive to Mary city will have us stop at Annau, the ruins of a 15th century Seyit Jamal-ad-Din Mosque and Abiward, an ancient Sassanid city. Archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Abiward have been made in the last century. Visit the glorious Ancient Merv (UNESCO World Heritage Site), one of the major archaeological sites of Central Asia, Merv played an important part in the development of the Silk Road for more than 2,000 years. We do a spectacular drive through the Karakum desert to Darwaza, visiting a small nomadic village. We drive to the Northern province of Turkmenistan, to the architectural monuments of Old Urgench, Capital of Khorezm in X-XII centuries. Visit the Mausoleum of Najm al-Din al-Kubra, Tyurabek Khanum, Il-Arslan, Tekesh Ibn Hadzhibey, the highest minaret in Central Asia Kutlyg Timur.