Country Info
- Dushanbe
- Capital
- Somoni (TJS)
- Currency
- 6,578,681
- Population
- TJ
- Country Code
Tajikistan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Tajikistan
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Travel Blogs from Tajikistan
Snow Snow and more snow
Ten years of civil war has left Tajikistan with aspirations of rapid growth and infrastructure devbelopment to catch up to and pass its central asian rivals. The people havnt lost their sense of hospitality throughout the years of war though. ...
What a pretty place
I arrived in customs at about 7 o'clock and departed a good two hours later. The guys who worked at the office there were real arse holes, it wasn’t just the fact that they made us stay there for 2 hours filling out every insignificant box that ...
Linnoja ja kuumia lahteita
Neuvostoaikojen muistoksi retkikuntamme lahti Lada Nivalla Karl Marx ja Engels -vuorten ympari. Tiimiin kuului meidan lisaksi sveitsilainen pariskunta Claudia ja Alex seka maailman paras rallikuski Abdulnazar. Lada Niva koetteli aluksi ...
It's unlikely ever to get better than this
I speak to Subar, my friendly and helpful homestay host, about registration and return to the OVIR office. It's closed until 11.00. I read another bit of the LP and interpreted it that I can register in Murgab but get no stamp but then must register ...
Sep 29, 2010
Oct 01, 2010
Jack and David.
A fresh start and a new day. Finally heading off from Buhkara. There was no sight of the young fellah who spoke English. Just his mother. She busied herself with getting our breakfast and rang her son. She handed me the phone. We needed our registration ...
Meteorite Lake
Another cold shower to start the day. I think I'm starting to enjoy them! It was a nice two hour drive with plenty of stops for photo opportunities. The Pamirs are beautiful even if they are incredibly barren. Not exactly what I was expecting ...
Pyoraretki paimenten kesalaitumille
Lampaannahasta tehdyssa jurtassa vaari laulaa pienokaista uneen ja keinuttaa kehtoa vauhdikkaasti - tuollaiseen keinumiseen tottuneesta tulisi varmaan hyva merimies. Tytto laittaa tulta kaminaan ja isa opettelee englantia sanakirjastamme. Muodoltaan ...
Crossing Tajikistan
... every afternoon. Some sections of the road were damaged, and we had to travel across the riverbed. Throughout my travel in Tajikistan, I was travelling in a UAZ (YA3 in Russian) - a very basic Russian jeep. There are not seatbelts. There are no ...
Dushanbe
I'm away early and enjoy the rest ride to Dushanbe. I book into the Vakhsh Hotel which, the LP solemnly informs me, was occupied by bearded mujaheddin rebels during the civil war. Perhaps that is why the president is busy issuing edicts! I spend the ...
Auf Wiedersehen to the Germans
... tore off down the runway. What a flight. On one side, when I looked out I could see Afghanistan and the other side Tajikistan. We flew through the valleys and watched the planes wings skirt the mountains. A small bit of turbulence livened up the flight ...
The mysteries of the internet
I couldn't update the blog yesterday from my laptop but the helpful owner of the internet cafe said if I got a USB cable I could transfer the data through their computer so off I wander to find a USB to USB cable. In Dushanbe? On my tour meet a ...
Second Stop: Tajikistan
I've never even dreamed of visiting Tajikistan, but hey, while I'm over that way...I have a very dynamic, and super-intelligent, friend I met through church, Chris Whitsel, who is actually studying in Tajikistan. Chris is doing his PhD through ...
The long haul home
I'd only been in Dushanbe five weeks, but built up a nice collection of friends. The evening consisted of just this, a long and gradual procession of people popping in to say farewell. Many people had not been to my house up until visitng me, and asides ...
Never ask a local the way
Never ask a local the way... ...essentially because they want to be helpful. I spend an unprofitable morning going backwards and forwards along what turns out to be the road to Dushanbe being variously told yes, this is the way, no it's back to ...
Got my visa
... $10 fuer ein ziemlich schlechtes Dormitory:-) Der Lada Niva verfuegte natuerlich auch ueber ein Videosystem, die Musik hier in Tajikistan gefaellt mir nicht besonders (habe jetzt so zehnmal "Mustafa, Mustafa" gehoert und mein Jeepfahrer auf dem Pamir Hwy ...
Less Snowy and Cold
... with no working heater or hot water and toilet of questionable flush-ability, I packed my bags and prepared for the last day in Tajikistan and on the trip. After a tajik honey pancake breakfast and a shot of vodka, we headed off to the Khojand museum. ...
Social Development
... they were selfish, taking the easy way out, almost like betraying their own country. He believed they should come back and help Tajikistan with what they have learned. He was learning English on his own, hoping to get into an university program and be ...
Pyykkipaiva ja tilannepaivitys
Khorogissa vietetaan pari paivaa akkuja lataillen ja pyykkia pesten. Matka Dushanbesta tanne taittui jeepilla (18 h) neljan brittireissaajan kanssa. Tama on Pamirin vuoristoalueen, GBAO:n (Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast) suurin kaupunki. GBAO:n alue ...
Endurance Road-trip
... prisoners who had just escaped. Some of them then attacked and killed several soldiers along one of the main roads in Tajikistan. Because of this, we were forced to take the long road along the Afghan border, an unpredictability and instability in this ...
3 Cultures, 3 Languages, 3 Beautiful Countries!
... . I then made my way to Ukraine, and it was so nice to meet up with the group. Chris took great care of me in Tajikistan, then Istanbul I was alone. We now Vera to help us all along the way. Vera met Susan, the director of our ...
Hissar
Salam, ich habe heute nachmittag noch einen Ausflug nach Hissar, 30km von Dushanbe entfernt, gemacht. Dort gibt es die Ueberbleibsel eines Forts aus dem 18 Jahrhundert und wurde 1924 von der Roten Armee zerstoert um einen lokalen Warlord zu besiegen. ...
First Days
... for lack of a proper visa. But at 4 AM on Friday morning I arrived at the airport in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. I immediately met Angela, also a new ACTED employee, and we started our 2.5 hr push to the little booth housing the one man ...
Finished my trip
... , ueber diese Grenze kommen ja die meisten Drogen (Afghanistan ist ja der groesste Opiumproduzent der Erde). Tajikistan ist der drittgroesste Beschlagnahmer von Opium, aber ich nehme an, dass der Drogenschmuggel dennoch ganz gut ...
Here Comes Winter
Wow, the last week really flew by. Last Saturday I attended a Tajik concert, traditional music from the Pamir mountains where a group of 5 musicians played on their handmade instruments. People in the seats got up to start dancing the traditional ...
Betreten der Baustelle verboten
... eroeffnet sich uns der Blick ueber einen tuerkisen Gebirgssee in die gewaltigen Fan-Berge, der zweiten groszen Gebirgskette in Tajikistan und entschaedigt fuer die Hoellenfahrt der letzten Nacht. Der weitere Tag, nachdem wir noch kurz einen gewaltigen ...
Leaving Tajikistan
... oder gar Pausen, weil gerade gearbeitet wird...). Dafuer ist die Strasse auch nicht ganz so spektakulaer wie die Strassen bisher in Tajikistan, auch wenn sie auch nicht haesslich ist:-) Am spannendsten war noch der Tunnel auf dem 3300m Pass, fast 10km, ...
Looking at some of the best scenery in the world
It's a strange life being on the road, making new friendships and then parting almost immediately. I feel as though I put down a few roots when I stay in a place I like only to pull them up a fewdys later. I feel a sense of loss. As we say our goodbyes ...
Pamir Highland
... military personnel and supplies to the border of the former USSR. Now it sees some tourists and trucks between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and China. Tajik military also uses it to patrol the Afghan border. Road conditions ranged from smoothly paved to broken ...