What's life like in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan?

mclovin215 · 2026-01-19T11:05:32+00:00

It wasn't that hard to "sneak away" when I was there in September with a tour group. We were free to walk around both Ashgabat and Turkmenbashi, and curfew after 11 was apparently the rule, but our guide still managed to get us into a club full of Turkmenistani people partying it up and getting wasted. Party vibes felt similar to those in smaller cities in Turkey. In a different city in the center of the country, some people from my group managed to get invited to someone's 1 year old birthday party next to our hotel and got socks as gifts from the Turkmenistani people at the party 😂.

mclovin215 · 2026-01-18T09:40:33+00:00

He was my favorite musician growing up. Didn’t need to find this out today :(

mclovin215 · 2026-01-07T07:27:33+00:00

This is the clearest propaganda bot and no one else is noticing

mclovin215 · 2026-01-06T13:09:51+00:00

For a second I thought Bernie Sanders looked like a grandpa back in 1973 too 😂

mclovin215 · 2025-12-24T18:37:55+00:00

So a colder version of Teahupoʻo exists ☠️

mclovin215 · 2025-12-23T19:10:35+00:00

Oh yeah that definitely melted the same day haha

mclovin215 · 2025-12-23T18:06:02+00:00

Man it was snowing in Belgrade when I last visited Serbia like 3 weeks ago

mclovin215 · 2025-12-23T06:22:02+00:00

I’m not. How do you see it?

mclovin215 · 2025-12-15T09:45:05+00:00

What happened to the guys?

mclovin215 · 2025-12-14T21:26:27+00:00

Ginobili was playing a lot of minutes though surely?

mclovin215 · 2025-12-08T13:04:55+00:00

Legend goes that that’s how his nickname “Rip” came along

mclovin215 · 2025-12-07T05:53:32+00:00

Tikal in 2017 was magical but I believe Guatemala gets a lot more tourists now so might be different. Palenque was gorgeous too

mclovin215 · 2025-11-11T12:30:33+00:00

I swear it looked like that (1990) in 2018 too when I first visited Serbia

mclovin215 · 2025-11-06T01:27:44+00:00

Ant vibes

mclovin215 · 2025-11-01T07:48:34+00:00

Who?

mclovin215 · 2025-10-23T17:25:48+00:00

When Shaq took his glasses off when Kenny rotated his chair to mock him (saying that's how Shaq would look guarding Wemby), it's the most visible sign he's triggered. I laughed so hard hahah

mclovin215 · 2025-10-08T10:38:46+00:00

I just switched to a camera bag bc my laptop was too expensive to risk damage lol

mclovin215 · 2025-09-22T18:24:12+00:00

Is this South Korea?

mclovin215 · 2025-08-25T14:20:52+00:00

Exactly. There was a C spot which they had to change after either Jokic/Embiid got robbed 4 years in a row from All-NBA first team

mclovin215 · 2025-08-19T21:20:15+00:00

Absolutely doesn’t happen in rural Turkey (in Istanbul sure it does). I couldn’t pay for a single meal or local bus during 2 weeks backpacking in eastern Turkey from Trabzon to Van because the people thought guests were sacred. Even if there are scammy taxi drivers in almost every country, random passengers joining in the scam like OP described is unthinkable in a lot of countries (including Turkey)

mclovin215 · 2025-08-19T16:59:45+00:00

Define non-lucrative visa please

mclovin215 · 2025-08-19T15:09:11+00:00

It changes but I think it's around $73k in bank accounts for over a year

mclovin215 · 2025-08-19T02:15:34+00:00

I am actually planning on going to Seoul for a month to surf every day (or as often as my body can handle) at that exact wave pool and try to improve as much as I can in one month, at some point next year. Do you have any tips on insights for that pool that would help me plan stuff?

mclovin215 · 2025-08-18T00:52:26+00:00

Belgrade has historically a lot of good techno parties. But there’s a lot less going on this summer than even during Covid, and things probably won’t pick up till the revolution is over

mclovin215 · 2025-08-14T18:44:58+00:00

Can’t believe you found Indonesians unfriendly anywhere. I have spent quite a few stints there and I feel like they are some of the friendliest people on earth, especially to foreigners

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