Ashgabat. Day 6
Another interesting day around the town. It's still very hard to know what to make of the place. It's odd and things never quite add up. Anyway, we started off heading out of town - with a brief stop at the world's largest indoor ferris wheel! It didn't seem to be moving... a lot of the places we go, you just look at the outside and it's not clear if they're staffed or working. I will leave out some of the other buldings we passed, other than to note the telecommunications tower features the world's largest eight-pointed star. Eventually we reached Nisa. This is a legitimately interesting ruin from the Parthian empire (BC and following the Greeks) and wandered around the site. On te way back into the city we went to the national carpet museum. This was also fairly interesting, at least for a while, though Lynn's attention wandered fairly soon. You may not be surprised to hear that we saw the world's largest rug, at 301 square metres. All of this can...