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Excursion
Nokhur Village and the Kow-Ata Cave
The price depends on your dates, group size and hotels. Send a request and we will reply with an offer.
Hidden more than 60 metres underground, Kow-Ata is a natural sulphur lake at the foot of the Kopet Dag. Higher in the same mountains lies Nokhur, a chain of villages whose people have kept their own dialect and way of life for centuries.
In the morning you meet your guide and driver at your hotel in Ashgabat for the drive to Nokhur (150 km, 3–4 hours), with stops on the way.
Highlights
- Saparmurat Hajji Mosque on the site of Gokdepe fortress, with blue domes and 63-metre minarets
- A swim in the warm sulphur water of Kow-Ata, the same temperature all year round
- The Akhal-Teke training base on the way
- Gyz-Bibi, the “gates of paradise”, where you can make a wish
- The unique Nokhur houses built on steep rocks
- “Three Wells”, a high point of the Kopet Dag
Included
- Local guide
- Picnic lunch in the Nokhur area
- Entrance tickets
- All transfers (1–2 people: sedan, 3–8: minivan)
Good to know
- This is a private guided excursion: no other tourists join you or your group
- You choose the order of the sights
- Pick a start time that suits you
- It can start straight from the airport or station, where our guide will meet you
