Repetek Nature Reserve
was founded in 1927 for the preservation and study of fauna and flora in the Western Kara Kum desert. It covers an area of 34.600 ha and was declared International Biospherical Reserve in 1979. The reserve contains a herbarium with 100 plants growing in the reserve and 1000 plants from other regions of Turkmenistan. The herbarium is a gift of the National Museum of Herbarium of the USA. The reserve has a small Nature Museum with stuffed animals, birds and reptiles.
Dayahattin Kervansaray
is the best preserved medieval kervansaray in Turkmenistan. It dates from the 11th century and was abandoned in the 16th century. It is square in plan, the walls being more than 50 meters long. Some parts keep text fragments with the names of the caliphs Abubakr, Omar and Ali.
Amu Darya Nature Reserve Museum
exhibits stuffed animals, as the rare Bukhara deer or the goitred gazelle jieran.
Amul' Settlement
In the 10th cent. the settlement was a fortress surrounded by a wide moat filled with water and with gates on all four side, safeguarded by warriors day and night.
Allamberdar Mausoleum
The mausoleum of Allamberdar Almutasir dates from the 11th cent. It is the largest of the early buildings in Northern Khurasan.
Astana-baba Mausoleum
The mausoleum dates back to the 11th and 12th cent. The complex includes the mausoleums of Zed-Ali and Zuveid-Ali. According to the legend the ruler of medieval Khurasan had a beautiful daughter, who died soon after her wedding. The mourning father asked the best masters from Merv and Samarkand to built a beautiful mausoleum, but the mausoleum collapsed immediately after it had been built. A short time later, the father had a dream. An old man advised him to built the mausoleum from clay and with water brought from Mecca. Soon the mausoleum was completed and after his death the father was buried next to his daughter.