Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Day 1

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you have to change Nexus from seven to ten fifty in the restaurant straight into like a elevator prank this way thank you so I'll see you later okay thanks a lot for help I don't know them I got over here this hotel actually caters to embassy and foreigners because the embassy is just downstairs in the basement and around the corner so it's really easy for them to see people to come here it's a one-bedroom suite with a frigerator TV one water that they provide you complimentary on the first day from our child look they got saved well that's a small safe it's so small we got the dressers and then the bathroom it's a normal style toilet simple oh look at this one that's a hairdryer but it looks like a vacuum this is the old-style bathtub this place is about 210 watt so if you convert that divided by 18 it's about 15 bucks lots of it I'm staying on the eighth floor here and from here you can see a good view of the whole downtown parliamentary area so all of these buildings are lit up at night it kind of looks like the Las Vegas Strip they have the humungous building here which ever that is I'm going to go explore Tomorrowland get a tour of the city but you can see all these buildings this is on the main streets where you can drive on the roads are so clean they actually shine it almost looks like it just rains it's so shiny but it's completely clean and drive and the weather's not so bad right now so I'm just taking a look out this window to see what's available I'm staying across from the circus building and I probably won't get a chance to visit a circus but at least I'm going to take a picture of the building there these buildings are so colorful they're lit up all night long green is the color of Turkmenistan all night long this place is lit up [Music] [Music] good morning Oscar but looking outside my window I can see all these buildings that were lit up last night that's a lot of buildings so today I'm gonna go explore and marvel at all the sites they have we'll see it today's Sunday I'm curious if there's people around they're still doing some building over here pashka bat-channel looks like some sort of History Channel is music and images [Music] let's see what else they got [Music] and also nicely got music classical music [Music] [Applause] sports that means gold so just normal everyday stuff on TV no bad news that's nice young Ben yes lik Mira's oh yeah another history ciao I wonder what this one is leva didn't do with flora and fauna planned place so no bad news that's nice [Music] Russian channels 8 o'clock I'm gonna start the day and see how it goes I'm gonna meet my guy here and he's gonna meet me at the lobby downstairs 8 o'clock it's only 5 hours since I said goodbye to him at 3 a.m. they were built by the Turkish companies in the 90s percentage of the cars you think are white I think ninety ninety percent yes almost in Ashgabat mainly ashkum I mean yes the other city is not so much no because somebody's called white city that's good so clear now [Music] this is a building move bank is the bank okay that's nice one the Turkish also built this one yes yeah the building behind it is hotel moose country talent Turkmen elaborate alibi three don't Alice one okay come on dog I'll take a bleep course I had famous for her as a symbol okay all the games this monument symbolizes the date of the independence example the total height is 9 to 1 meter the 1991 yeah all the independence and the top part along with the round terrace huh is 27 meters 27th of October and the diameter of the terrace is 10 meters it means the 10th anniversary yeah all right this was built in 2001 to commemorate the 10th anniversary today we're starting our tour of ashgabat my name is Murat I write how many years have you been a guide it's the seventh months that's nice and which company you work for all of them they're the biggest company yeah it is the biggest company among all companies assess before I joined this company I've been working as a teacher which subjects on English English Wow so that's how you know anywhere well that's helpful for me so I heard there's like 100 people that work for or Diwan employs about 120 hundred and twenty people so you joined them because they're one of the biggest ones yes okay so you meet people from all around the world now and the fountains keep on going on till December when the weather gets cold hey do you guys have any snow here we have snow only three times maximum okay January yes several times you do not to have any snow in the mountains yeah today the flags are half-mast because in 1948 they had a earthquake that was on the scale of nine rector's and nine tenths of a population died so that's why they're remembering it today [Applause] [Music] the second building is the minister of health care it is in the shape of Cobra Cobra yeah I see the next building is the Center for oncology do you have any Turkish professors that work here you know everyone's took money yeah we call German this building which is still being built yeah with the new Embassy of the United States already oh so big they have a good relationship right nice one the next one is the weights Oh UAE and that's a historical museum too bad there's no flag up there today what do you mean it it blows jet like a jet engine from what - like from the bottom to wave it yeah okay I say treat complex was built by the French company the next one is archability it was named before but neutrality is 1995 yeah it is the first neutral country in the world approved by United Nations Switzerland was neutral before the United Nations was established it was 75 metres for them now later it was dismantled and rebuilt here it is 95 yeah how do they make it larger like that the legs are where it's at okay I did that's it oh oh okay the statue yeah and the height of the statue is 20 meters oh it is our form of wisdom that's the first one yes yeah there are elevators in each legs hobo's up there people citizens out there and there's a viewpoint look at the city ANCA it is I think in repair now yeah okay we cannot go up too bad the statue here yeah rotating before use to locate dented into the records book of Venus stop so there's a TV tower and they brought a cast all the channels from here yes and it was built in 2011 okay and it is 211 meters tall alright the building is agency of turkmen communication the next building is Paris accountants this is Constitution monomyth lawlessness the second tallest building which is 185 meters all right a buck yeah the next building with a globe on top is the Minister of Foreign Affairs how many buildings are there there's maybe 1,000 buildings in the city nearly nearly this is the Turkmen Stein industrial complex so today everybody is off from Martinez although it is a fun day yeah this is the Turkmenistan stage show you solve customs next building is miss miss miss means in the Parliament Parliament today and this is Alan Post the biggest enclosed space versus famous the second floor was intended for the elder people and as a VIP restaurant with 20 seats and as cafes and restaurants on the third floor there's an entrance to Harrisville mmm on the first floor you enter into the ferris wheel in the fifth floor have you been on it yes we're going go now it's open yes so how many cars can park down and 177 wow they're so a big parking lot downstairs yes that's impressive and there's a very good restaurant and the food is like when do you think this place opens for children be Friday nights or when it's not busy today it's too early now too early here evenings it is the only day off so people come later yeah often looks fun harley-davidson the hillbillies well this is fun I wonder what you did on this one oh you shoot stuff the hillbillies all right got a rock climbing wall here bumper cars Hummer and race cars basketballs and more racing that's interesting it's the ferris wheel so in the evening this place is packed Tongass well so we're lucky we came early I wonder how many people cannot sit in Ferris Ville in one car like six people yes Kevin yeah person 71 six people okay largest indoor Ferris phone in the world I wonder how we do this we go inside ourselves wait for the first day this car can hold six people and the VIP one is somewhere up there for four people all right so we're gonna try the ferret oh hey how much is one liter of petrol here I'm talking about right now I'm always the history before cheaper yeah one glass of still water Wow but you said before you can get like free petrol yes 720 do this yeah for six months there's more than enough to everybody everybody in the country yeah oh that's nice of the president what did the guy ask you dude it's an air-conditioned one and I said no sounds like a penis oh so this one doesn't have air conditioner it's either one it's still okay well it's real fancy it's good for the summertime yes but this part is not covered is it we figured out how to do it so you just turn this key and that turns on the air condition that's good gommi wolf switzerland cabinets so the same company that makes the ones for the cable parts to the ski mountains so this area in the mountainside is the memorial for the earthquake victims from 1948 right now there's many people visit in that area because of today but when will we go to what was data yeah okay but not so many people are there the spittin is tokens done we went to the zoo for three hours from 9:45 to 12:45 then returned back Motor City for lunch the biggest one is in Jeddah now tediz getting water has it restaurant I have they have Turkmenistan food here yes [Music] anyplace please sit here I got here two heads odds restaurant and I was happy that you were able to make it here um I'm James Daniels and I'm a teacher here in Ashgabat I teach at the American School it's sponsored by the US State Department all right how long have you been working here this is my second year and you enjoy it yes that's good and how long is your contract for two years this will be my last year okay so it's two years at a time right I came last school year and at the end of this school year I will be transferred I'm not sure it's kind of like anticipation of real work text yes it'll be in a few moments all of these similar work I like to meet members from the power-saving website everywhere I go so I've been 294 countries and I met them in like 160 I missed a few though yeah in North Korea you have to meet a Swiss guy we worked at the Embassy but since I didn't order okay but everywhere else I'm at least one have you eaten that position before no but this is not a part of ashgabat that I come to oh but look it's so fancy the menu is on an iPad have you ordered off an iPad before yes yeah yeah okay but Turkmenistan was the first time right you probably okay for me too yeah a lot of this stuff has happened to me I couldn't write custom really we had one family that had to leave last year ob/gyn hospital looks like a vagina and the hospital has a big eye on it at the crater everybody said well if you go to yours Turkmenistan you can go anywhere after Danish hands [Music] okay I said you know okay thank you it's so nice to meet you and honor I'll see you in the next cut all right sounds good okay this is the US Embassy or the circle Soares defendant neutral death Winston I finally made it to the office of what went on tours and I was able to meet our tour yeah yeah thanks very much and thanks very much for coordinating everything cuz Turkmenistan is very difficult for me to organizing at the visa and it's so one of the two last countries in the world for me to visit oh one will be Syria so and without your help they would've been super difficult as transiti in the country they say fifty percent get denied the visa yeah but with the tour company it's a lot easier yeah so if I ever have any other people that want to come to Turkmenistan I recommend you to accompany each other but see ya see [Music] thermometer this is the historical site of Nisa it's a world UNESCO heritage site since 2007 people use it as a place to get wedding photos as these people aren't gonna do this girl is waiting for a taxi yeah she's Russian [Music] the tourist bus just arrived change them they will change now okay look at them is his mother's yeah that's his father's okay and his two brothers and her mother mm-hmm died in this week Wow okay and his father died in the Second World War family feel and only responsibilities [Applause] [Music] as Japanese dishes normally this is a monument with those who died in the Second World War that mononym who was that yeah he's those who died in other battles this monument Paris that was built and opened in 1998 28 to commemorate the 50th anniversary what's the ball represent according to the mythology the earth is held the fond of the wood when the bull shifts the earth from one phone to another no speak which mythology is that from three yes okay what's the gold thing at the top mean good boy yeah and the top means our former president because he was only one who survived in the earthquake from his family his two brothers and mother died in the earthquake right how many times of the Russians come to Turkmenistan essentially 1878 and then I can find in 1882 okay so what happened the first time first time the Russian army was defeated happens okay second time finally sees prepare for tests so they took over Turkmenistan second time yes and they held it up until 1991 no no no in 1917 yeah there was a solution yeah the overseas sir there was a new system part of the conservative yes the neurology center there it is and this is a new hospital for ascetical treatment is please treatment hospital tomato Logie so if you need to have treatment for your teeth you come here yes okay this is the shape of tools we're here with this bill do you think about ten years ago and this is for our treatment possible and it shaped like analysis if you look at it it'll from the bomb there are some Turkmen who live in Sweden what we'd like to go first food courts upstairs to the restaurant yeah it's with [Music] [Music] ordered a table Salish I had people [Music] [Music] [Music] all right [Music] murder well Nathan one with its Mulligan that is done Maura do you hide what is not - look Logan vclt yeah touching the Chipola minute sailors okay let's see what's on the news today channel 1 fresh cobot looks pretty peaceful so far [Music] nice monuments I've been to all these places today so now I recognize them [Music] 6th October remembering the earthquake of 1948 now let's change the channel we got Turkmen awaaz e that's just music got the sports channel of course then we get Alton asir Alcala Donnie I thought to get a video put on the phone after horse sports well now what's this one gonna say maybe this is the news TV channel [Music] nice territory a house go girl I had them whose patient about it bureau of me repeat players but it was to 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Length: 42min 4sec (2524 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020