Excursions to Turkmenistan

Booking excursion

Trip to Gaz crater Darvaza 

Duration – 12 hours
Advance order – 24 hours before
Season – all the year round

The program of trip: 

At 08.00. T ransfer: Ashgabat – village Bakhardok – village Erbent - Darvaza (270 km). On a way short visiting of small settlement Erbent where it is possible to get acquainted with a nomadic life of shepherds. Walk around of Darvaza. Lunch. Return to Ashgabad.

Darwaza- a mysterious place in Turkmenistan
“Gates to the Nether”. “Gates of Hell"

It looks like an entrance to the underworld- a huge gap with flame tongues tearing away day and night. You can easily find it if you take the road from Ashgabad to Dashkhovuz (270 km) to the north. Once upon a time it used to be a bore-hole to extract natural gas. But now it is a remote region where you can meet only shephards with their camels.
The main crater is 60 m in diameter and 20 m deep. This crater with its burning flame is quite dangerous for all human beings(for example for the birds trying to fly it over) since it is not protected by fences.
Near the road you can find two more craters of the same origin.
These two craters do not throw out flames as the natural gas pressure is much weaker. On the bottom of one of them you can see bubbling liquid of light grey colour. Watching the bottom of the second one you will be wondering saturated brine of magnificent turquoise colour.

Birds arrive on fire and warmly


Crater in the ground


Crater which is near to Darwaza


Darwaza is in 250 kilometers on the
north from Ashgabad


From settlement Darvazy up to a
crater of 9 km


Gas burns since from 1971 year


Gas crater in the afternoon


Gates to the Nether


Gaz crater Darwaza


Here hundreds insects


Karakum desert - Black sand,
Darwaza - a door


The sizes of a crater of 20 meters
depth and 60 meters in diameter