The burning gas crater in the Karakum Desert has been one of Turkmenistan’s main tourist attractions
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov has ordered his government to find a way of extinguishing an infernal-looking gas crater that has been burning in the Karakum desert for the past 50 years.
The crater located near the village of Darvaza, some 270km from Turkmenistan’s capital of As