WEB SPECIALS

What are Web Specials?

As a bonus for visiting our web site, we offer various special deals on our tours to the web audience. This is usually the first, and sometimes the only place where we will offer these deals on the website. They range from being tours to new destinations or special prices on our existing ones.

Please check back often to see what new specials we are offering. Also, if you would like to be informed automatically of any specials or new destinations, please join the Bestway Club where you will receive advance notification of every new destination and tour special that we run. To join the club simply click here. It will compose and address an e-mail message to bestway@bestway.com indicating your desire to join the club. All you have to do is send the message. It's that easy.

Here is brief run down of what is happening at Bestway Tours & Safaris

This section is for those who are interested in finding travelers to join a specific tour and departure date. Announce the tour and date you are interested and we will get the message across to members of the Bestway Club. Who knows there may be somebody who may also be interested in the same tour as you. This edition we have two tours with four departures dates. Call us if any of these interest you. If you are also in the same position and are looking for other travelers to join a specific tour, do let us know and we will pass the message across at no cost to you. You may contact us at 1.800.663.0844 / bestway@bestway.com

Turkmenistan – saddled in the most interesting part of the world, this Central Asia country is relatively new and actually very old. Bordered by the Caspian Sea in the west, it has good neighbourly relations with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the north; Afghanistan in the southeast and Iran in the south.

A country of contrasts, the capital city of Ashgabat standing out as a whole different entity to the rest of the country. The city of Ashgabat (Persian word meaning “city of love”) has more white marble structures then probably the whole of Canada. Huge, majestic, white, with columns going so high that would make you lift your head awkwardly to see the top. Ashgabat is a very clean city and is best known for its Sunday Bazaar where different items are sold in a very colourful oriental set up. The bazaar is the major cultural event of the week and the most popular part of the bazaar is the live stock area where one can see the “flying” camels – where cranes are used to lift camels from trucks. Besides housing three wonderful museums (including the carper museum where the world’s largest carpet is on display), the world heritage site of Nissa is also very closely located to Ashgabat.

Many ancient civilizations flourished in this what may seem barren land and they have all left their marks. Two of the three UNESO World heritage sites in Turkmenistan include Merv (Mary) and Kunya Urgench. Merv –a major Silk road center and was the 12th Centuries largest city in the world. Merv is the oldest and best-preserved of the oasis-cities along the Silk Route in Central Asia. The remains in this vast oasis span 4,000 years of human history. A number of monuments are still visible, particularly from the last two millennia.

The other interesting and UNESCO World Heritage Site is Kunya Urgench which is located in north-western Turkmenistan, on the left bank of the Amu Daria River. Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region, part of the Achaemenid Empire. The old town contains a series of monuments mainly from the 11th to 16th centuries, including a mosque, the gates of a caravanserai, fortresses, mausoleums and a 60-m high minaret. The monuments testify to outstanding achievements in architecture and craftsmanship whose influence reached Iran and Afghanistan, and later the architecture of the Mogul Empire of 16th-century India.

Kunya Urgench is closely located to another World Heritage site in neighbouring Uzbekistan called Khiva. More on that later. Turkmenistan is a country of contrasts and is slowly getting into the 21st century. It is best combined with Uzbekistan, Iran and Turkey. Turkish Airlines as well as Lufthansa, Aeroflot and Turkmen Airlines sly to the city of love. Click here for our tours to Turkmenistan.

Every year we put in a lot of time and resources to study first hand the destinations we service to. Since January 2010 various members of your Bestway team have been to Brunei, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Thailand, Senegal and Morocco. The results of these exercises have brought new and enhanced tour programs to these destinations.

2011 Tours – many of the 2011 tour have already been finalized and are available for viewing on our website. Others are in the making and our website is regularly being updated.
For 2011 Tour Calendar please click => http://www.bestway.com/calendar-2011.html