Country Info
- Dushanbe
- Capital
- Somoni (TJS)
- Currency
- 6,578,681
- Population
- TJ
- Country Code
Dushanbe Slideshow
Top Hotels in Dushanbe
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Hyatt Regency Dushanbe
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Best Eastern Tajikistan Dushanbe
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Hotel Mercury Dushanbe
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Hotel Grand Asia Dushanbe
9 reviews
Dushanbe
Travel Blogs from Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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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 ...
Jack and David.
... and nearly entering the country illegally and getting shouted at, we had no problems :-D Stamped and let in we found a taxi to Dushanbe. 40 som each. Pulling into the city we asked to be dropped into the centre. He agreed for another 20. We just ...
Crossing Tajikistan
... actually fly, or if I could get a ticket, and I could not afford to wait. The jeep arrived in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, at 3:30am. I splurged. I stayed at a $70/night hotel. I sooooooooooooo appreciated an indoor toilet. Dushanbe is a ...
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 ...
The mysteries of the internet
... 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 distraught Frenchman I met briefly in khorog. He is beside himself with anger because he cannot get a Uzbekistan ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
First Days
... to Tajikistan 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 ...
Here Comes Winter
... a feeling I am about to become a regular. Yesterday I went with my friends Erica and Marial to hike near Varzob, north of Dushanbe. We went in matshutka, a crappy little bus that they cram about 17 people inside of and which reaks of petrol. It was ...
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 ...
Enjoying a nice Tajik winter...
... . So I am going back in time to give you an entry from February. After Afghanistan, I was unfortunately stuck in Dushanbe for a few weeks, basically for meetings with bosses. But I did have some time to do some nice snowshoeing (Erica ...
M41 claims yet another victim
... the day with a vengeance. Well, sort of. Let's not get too carried away. Another check point and I'm told it's another 100k to Dushanbe. Oh yeh! Another 60 miles or so of the same except there are more vehicles on the road so there are more blinding dust ...
Making the best of my time, thus far!
... has a whole new meaning. The sun was up, Chris was waiting, and it was 5:30am. Chris and I have walked all over Dushanbe today. We are now at a very internet cafe...exhausted but excited to taste all this beautiful life. Much of the ...
Still in Tajikistan...
Good Morning Family and Friends- While most of you are starting your workday, we are winding out day down here in Dushanbe We are 9 hours ahead, and so far, I have been able to control the jet lag fairly well with sleeping pills from my ...
Sep 26, 2010
Moving to a new site
Just to let everybody know that I am transferring to a new website: www.trampingtheglobe.com and this is where you can keep informed about my adventures in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
The end of a dusty day...
... but it isn't enough! I will try to add some photo's soon. I'm writing this from the Mercury Hotel in the capital city of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, and it was a real surprise to us all - the suite Pete and myself are in is fabulous and about the size of my ...
Greasy soup land
A multiplicity of ideas swarms round in my head, my inclination towards each periodically waxing and waning. I am set to leave the country in four days provided my housemate manages to get my flight booked, and nothing has become any clearer asides from ...
Sticky fingers
... her we will be back Friday to buy our tickets. We can only hope that the planes leave between now and then. So were holed up in Dushanbe for a few more days. Not a bad place for it. Later on in the evening we picked up a crate of miller. The most ...
Finally in Dushanbe
... died when I had to watch a 50 year old russian woman acting out wiping with toilet paper. jesus. Took a nice walk around dushanbe... confirming my earlier opinion.. it really is great here. I'm just gonna have to figure out this russian ...
Some pictures
Hello world, first working week is over. Actually I would say I only worked about half of the time, but slowly I get used to that. So today I went on a small trip to Isfara, that is on the border to Kirgistan in the North East of the Fergana Valley. ...
Country roads...
... the tajik officer and you are through in 10 minutes. The problem is what comes next. To get from Samarkand to Dushanbe the capital of Tajikistan you must cross the Fan Mountains. And well the road going through them is scaringly beautiful. Indeed you go ...
Km 8701, Dushanbe
... der Hälfte der Abfahrt ankamen und bei einer tadjikischen Familie übernachteten. Seit gestern sind wir in Dushanbe, der Hauptstadt Tadjikistans. Hier machen wir noch die letzten wichtigen Erledigungen; Bewilligungen einholen, Essen kaufen, Velo ...
A Flight over Afghanistan
... first and last flirtation with air travel on this trip! sure to make you folks, as much as us, breathe a little easier. Dushanbe is very nice. Very clean and civilised - just how the soviets probably always intended it. Love Pat" There was a ...
Journey to Khojand
... so no problem I also got a mobile card already. Only problem is that here one has to pay if somebody calls from outside Tajikistan. So every minute costs me 20 US Cents... Should no keep anybody away from calling, just understand if I do not talk for ...
Finally...a note from Sarah!
... , I will start with what I'm up to right now and post the other updates as I finish them today and tomorrow. I flew into Dushanbe from Kyrgyzstan on July 14th and within 1 hour of arriving I already met two cyclists (1 from Switzerland, 1 from Italy) who ...
First time in Dushanbe
... . Alladin Lake is also a nice visit. Hizor FOrt and the accompanying maddrassa are also only about 45 minutes from Dushanbe. On the way, stop at the local market and look around. Restaurants to visit include: Al Sham for Mediterranean ...
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