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Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is one of the least visited countries in the world, and one of the most extraordinary. Most of it is the Karakum desert, and in the middle of that desert a crater of burning gas has been glowing for decades. Its capital, Ashgabat, has been rebuilt almost entirely in white marble. What to see The Darvaza gas crater is the reason most people come, and a night in a yurt camp beside it is the…
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