Thanks for your response, Batyr, and yeah, I completely agree that what one sees on TV or that one "captures" from what the media shares isn't always the right image. Hospitality in seemingly hostile countries is often very pronounced even though you wo... show more

Yeah, for someone like me who has never been there and only knowing what I've seen on TV from Turkmenistan it's a bad place to end up in a hospital, especially if you don't speak the language. Internet censorship is a big thing with VPN being illegal. C... show more