Gonur Depe and Merv belong to a very special country that I deeply recommend.
The site is composed of different and distant places which require small routes by car. It's a little bit special to see ruins of buildings dating of periods very different, that's probably why the site is laid out like this.
I remember the multitude of fragments of earthenware jars scattered on the ground, and above all the strange green vestiges of the old ovens.
My favourite building is on the joined picture, quite massive.
To finish, I met a black and white snake, so be careful ;)