Top 10 Reasons to Visit Turkmenistan

1. See the dinosaur footprints (koýten dag).
2. While visiting ancient ruins you are guaranteed to be the only people there (Merv, Nisa, Moorgenç, Koynergenç).
3. See a huge hole in the desert perpetually burning.
4. A chance to see the result of many years of soviet control.
5. A chance to experience a society that has been closed to outside influence for a number of years.
6. The Turkmen culture has proclaimed itself to be “guest-loving”.
7. If you visit you could go weeks without paying for any food (because people will constantly force-feed you).
8. One of the few places in the world where people (women mostly) wear traditional dress daily.
9. Natural gas, water, electricity, 30L/month petrol, salt (uniodized), 20 Kilos of flour, and local telephone service are all free.
10. Opportunity to visit the only “peaceful, independent and permanently neutral government” in the world.