Turkmenistan’s Jurassic Park is for real

A man touches his hand on one of the fossilised dinosaur tracks on Turkmenistan's Plateau of the Dinosaurs. - Photo from AFP

You can literally walk where dinosaurs used to rule in a remote area of Asia.

SOME eight hours dusty drive from the nearest major settlement, tucked into the eastern corner of Turkmenistan and unknown to the outside world until the second half of the last century, lies one of the most mythical yet least visited spots in the former Soviet Union.