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Turkmenistan · 230 m
Short description of Mary
Mary is the provincial capital of the southeast and the place travellers sleep when they come for the ruins outside it. The town itself is a grid of Soviet planning along the Murghab, green with irrigation and unhurried, with a large mosque in the new national manner at one end. Its regional museum is the real reason to stop, holding the Bronze Age material lifted from the desert sites to the north and explaining them far better than the excavations do. A Russian Orthodox church survives near the centre. Cotton and gas keep the province working rather than tourism.
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Best time to visit: April – May or September – October
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All highlights and sightsBeta
- Mary Regional History Museum
- Mary green bazaar
- Gurbanguly Hajji Mosque
- Murghab embankment and the city park
- Yusuf Hamadani mosque and mausoleum(Day trip)
- Pokrovskaya Russian Orthodox church
- Talkhatan Baba mosque(Day trip)
- Independence Monument of Mary
- Mary drama theatre