The legend, is that the name Nohur comes from the name of the prophet Noah, whose ark, after a forty-day voyage,dropped anchor at Mount Manoman. Whereas the Turks claim a simialr mooring at their Mount Ararat.
Even though they are a close knit community they were a friendly bunch of people, said to be hard working and loyal to each other. They also enjoy polygamous relationships.
How very civilised
High above the town "Long live peace"
Nokhur, a quiet village sits on a dusty country road into the Kopet Deg mountains; so leave the tarmacadam Ashgabat to Turkmenbashi road behind and join that dusty country road.
A throwback in time but still doing the business, a GAZ-69 Soviet military off-road vehicle, produced between 1953 and 1972. It was a lightweight, four-wheel-drive command vehicle and workhorse for the Red Army.
Cargo tricycles amble through the town
The folk in these here parts, the Nokhurli, speak their own dialect, foreign even to other Turkmen speakers.
They believe they are descended from the invading armies of Alexander the Great who wandered these parts pillaging raping and killing 300 years BCE.
This must be the equivalent of "The middle at Lidl", a fine array of products from footwear to vegatables, plants, brooms and some rather dubious looking liquids, which I am sure is not coca-cola!
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