Places not to miss in #Ashgabat, #Turkmenistan

When I first saw Ashgabat's new city, I forgot to shut my mouth for a few minutes. I'm not quite sure if I could describe the feeling from the view. It is a showy, brand new city with hundreds of massive, pompous buildings, memorials, monuments, gardens, and other public buildings and spaces, built almost entirely of marble, which is why they are pure white.  A photo essay -> https://bit.ly/3qC0Oh6 

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