The market held on the outskirts of Ashgabad every weekend is possibly Central Asia's largest bazaar.

Not many tourists visit North Korea, but it is possible on a select few guided tours.

This peninsula in the north-west of Turkey is best known to New Zealanders as the site of the Allied troop landings of April 25, 1915 - a date now commemorated annually as Anzac Day. Almost 3000 New Zealanders and more than 8000 Australians were killed during the ill-fated nine-month Gallipoli campaign and the peninsula is now a popular pilgrimage site for tourists from the Antipodes who wish to pay their respects.