Tolkuchka-Basar

Sunday is the Day of the Livestock Market

This is s huge market. Most of it not worth seeing. The two best parts are the carpet market and the livestock market. The problem with the carpet market is that you cannot take photos and foreigners ...

huge bazaar with reasonable prices

Tons of souvenirs and vast area. you need a scooter to get from one pavilion to another. I got tired but satisfied with shopping.

Modernized bazaar

This the local version of the mall. Big white buildings with shops. Little of the goods we saw were local, other than food. Photos in the food market forbidden - why? The saving grace of the trip...

Innovative market

Beautiful and a slow stroll will show what is happening in rural Turkmenistan. All woven stuff including carpets are sold here Affordable prices. Worth the visit. In addition lot of different textil...

Boring

For three years I have not been in Ashgabat’s oriental bazaar or how locals call it tolkuchka. Tolkuchka is a russian word derives from word tolkat in English “ to push “. It used to be very crowd on ...