Ashgabat prepares to greet the guests to the 2017 Asian Games
A sightseeing bus with the first tourists made a test trip around the Turkmen capital. Taking a ride on a comfortable two-decked ‘ship’, the tourists enjoyed the sights of Ashgabat and learned more about the history and new biography of the Turkmen capital. The city tours will be offered to the guests and participants of the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games that will be held in Ashgabat on September 17, 2017. The citizens of Ashgabat also liked the idea to take a tour around their native city as in a few years it has changed so that not only recently built districts but the modernized old neighbourhoods look like new ones. Foreign tourists say that Ashgabat resembles a sparkling crystal palace surrounded by green gardens and the splashes of a thousand of fountains on the edge of the hot desert. The guests to the Turkmen capital will have an opportunity to see a wonderful oasis in the arms of one of the greatest deserts in the world from a bird’s eye view. Helicopter tours will be organized in Ashgabat during the 2017 Asian Games. The decision on organizing the helicopter tours was taken by the President of Turkmenistan and soon the city authorities suggested the Turkmen leader to take a test helicopter trip around the capital. Besides, the prices for the local flight tickets for the tourists, arriving in Ashgabat during the 2017 Asian Games, will be reduced so that our guests could visit the other regions of the country. Some stores in the capital will be opened round-the-clock. The information and telecommunications networks will be expanded to ensure the quality of communication and broadcasting. The speed of the exterior Internet channel will double. 90 base stations of 2G (GSM), 3G (UMTS), 40 4G (LTE) standards will be additionally installed on the territory of the Olympic Village and other districts in the capital to ensure the stable cellular communications. With the brand of 2017-Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital will be ranked among the most popular travel routes in Asia. Therefore, it is a busy season for representatives of the hotel and restaurant business and tour operators.
