Reisende aus den Vereinigten Staaten, Europa, Australien und Japan entscheiden sich für Karakum Journey, wenn es um private Touren in Turkmenistan, Übernachtungsausflüge zum Darvaza-Gaskrater und Unterstützung bei der Visumbeschaffung geht. Hier erfahren Sie, welche Erfahrungen sie gemacht haben.
They built the itinerary around my shooting schedule — sunrise at the crater, late afternoon at Merv. Three hours at the Sultan Sanjar Mausoleum with almost no other visitors. That kind of access doesn't happen with group tours. Visa and LOI sorted within a week, no complications.
They built the itinerary around my shooting schedule — sunrise at the crater, late afternoon at Merv. Three hours at the Sultan Sanjar Mausoleum with almost no other visitors. That kind of access doesn't happen with group tours.
We weren't sure Turkmenistan would suit us at our age. It did. Swimming in a warm cave lake 65 meters underground was not something we expected to be doing. The guide was patient, the car was private the whole time, and every question we sent by email was answered the same day.
I was writing about Central Asia and needed a local operator who actually knew the history. The Kunya-Urgench guide had studied the Khorezmian period specifically — that level of detail ended up in my article. The Darvaza overnight was everything it's supposed to be. Just go.
The scale of Ashgabat's architecture is impossible to grasp from photographs. Our guide had an engineering background and explained the structural decisions — exactly what I came for. We added Old Nissa the same afternoon. Parthian ruins from 300 BC, completely empty, with a view to the Iranian mountains. Turkmenistan is a strange and wonderful place.
Driver was waiting at the Farap border when we crossed from Bukhara. No waiting, no confusion. Merv was the day we talk about most — walking the walls of Gyaur Kala and trying to process that half a million people lived inside them. Ashgabat surprised us. The Darvaza crater was the obvious highlight, but the city earns more time than most people give it.