Routes of international adventure tours converge in Karakum
Today, tourists are looking for more than just impressions from seeing new places, but also adventures.
More and more travelers prefer more exotic means of transportation to flying in comfortable liners, which open, so to speak, a broad overview: camels, bicycles, motorcycles, cars ...
Then it's not just a sightseeing trip - it's a lot of meetings with different people in different countries, it's dating, communication, friendship.
Well, what can you see from aboard the airplane?
People already spend time on business trips, so that even in their spare time they can dive into the bustle of airports and railway stations. And then - the romance of the road! Well, or off-road. It depends on the path.
The Madventure truck, converted into a passenger all-terrain vehicle with high sides, is not threatened by any obstacles...
The other day it reached Turkmenistan with a group of 42 tourists and an escort from a motorcycle and Landover.
Madventure is a British travel company offering budget adventure off-road tours around the world. Recently, according to its representatives, it is very popular in Central Asia, the Silk Road, some of which runs through Turkmenistan.
One of these routes also led our guests to Ashgabat. Before that, they crossed the Caspian Sea by ferry from Baku, got from the port of Turkmenbashi to Belek, where they spent the night in a tent camp. On the way to the capital, they stopped at Kov-ata - a cave with an underground lake, inspected and admired the architectural decor of the famous mosques in Gokdepe and Kipchak.
In Ashgabat the group settled in the hotel "Ak Altyn", of course, it does not fit into the concept of tourist down-shifting, but it's also necessary to compare with something.
Today travelers have devoted to acquaintance with the Turkmen capital, its sights and museums. The Ashgabat program of guests' stay also includes a visit to the eastern bazaar. The company "Ashkhabatsyahat" accepts guests.
And again off to the road! Course on Ichoguz, and the center of Karakum - Darvaza, to the gas crater, epic fire flaming in the middle of the boundless desert.
For night shots on the edge of this fiasco, called tourists "Gates of Hell," from which flames break out, people come and travel from around the world.
For decades, the indefatigable crater has served as an attractive technogenic monument, casting mystical impressions and creating a fantastic landscape...
As organizers say, Madventure-tours are unique, complex and can change right on the road, but they are for those who are looking for adventure. Among such searchers in the current group are managers and housewives, school teachers and farmers, restaurateurs and sellers, entrepreneurs and psychologists, pensioners and management specialists ... It's not only the British, there are Australians, Spanish, Germans, residents of Canada and the USA, New Zealand and Malta.
Group Madventure intends to spend a couple of nights in the Karakum sand. and then he will meet with the legendary and mysterious city of masters, mausoleums and with the highest minaret - Kunyaurgench.
From there they will travel to Uzbekistan, then Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan ...
And for those wishing to add more to a trip, the expedition can last up to three months: China, Tibet, Nepal ...
