Lebap Region
Turkmenistan · Asia
About Lebap Region
Lebap Province is a very sparsely populated province of Turkmenistan along the Amu Darya River, forming the country's eastern boundary with Uzbekistan.
Lebap Region travel guide
Understand
About three-quarters of the region's land area is in the Karakum Desert. The region's sunny weather and abundance of water resources help produce high-quality long-staple cotton – but the water use along the Amu Darya results in the river not reaching the Aral Sea any more.
See
1 Dayahatyn (on the left bank of Amu Darya, 170 km north-west from Turkmenabat and off any common tourist routes). One of the finest and most valuable examples of a caravanserai in Central Asia. Nowadays a ruin, the caravanserai was probably built as a fortress in the 9th century and transformed into a caravanserai during the 11th and 12th centuries and used into the 16th century. The mastery in brickwork of Seljuk architects can still be admired.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.