Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Previewing Turkmenistan (and why I’m going offline for 10 days)

By the time you read this, I will be in Turkmenistan, a country sometimes called the “North Korea of Central Asia.” Indeed, it has been ranked third to last in terms of freedom of the press, just above Burma and – you guessed it – North Korea. Lonely Planet refers to it as “mysterious and […]

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