Tag: Parthian Ruins

• Friday Evening Traffic Jam, Turkmenistan Style

  Don’t you just hate it when you’re on your way to visit a ancient city that’s been abandoned for 500 years and you’re held up by a herd of camels? Yeah, me too. I mean who wouldn’t want to just gawk at these magnificent ‘ships of the desert’ as they slowly made their way along […]

  farflungistan

  April 8, 2013

  Central Asia, Mary, Turkmenistan

  Camels, Central Asia, Desert, Karakum Desert, Mary, Merv, Parthian Empire, Parthian Ruins, Silk Road, Turkmenistan, UNESCO

• The End of the Yellow Brick Road

  The phrase ‘lost to the sands of time’ tends to conjure up thoughts of mighty empires that have faded away into the desert. Nisa, the first capital of the Parthians, is no different in the dusty hills a short distance outside of Ashgabat. The spectacular mountaintop setting on what is now the Turkmenistan/Iran border belies […]

  farflungistan

  April 2, 2013

  Ashgabat, Central Asia, Nisa, Turkmenistan

  Ancient City, Central Asia, Nisa, Parthian Empire, Parthian Ruins, Silk Road, Turkmenistan, UNESCO, Village of Bagyr, World Heritage