Country Info
- Dushanbe
- Capital
- Somoni (TJS)
- Currency
- 6,578,681
- Population
- TJ
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Karakul
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Americas Best Value Inn Dushanbe
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Best Eastern Tajikistan Dushanbe
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Hotel Mercury Dushanbe
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Hotel Grand Asia Dushanbe
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Karakul
Travel Blogs from Karakul, Tajikistan
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Meteorite Lake
... us. After the departures and us all settling in we all headed off to see the attraction that brought us here. Karakul lake. Formed by a meteorite . Its eerily beautiful. A dead lake. But again while I loved it, I was expecting something ...
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 ...
Pamirin suurin jarvi
... avautuivat epatodellisen kauniit mutta karut maisemat. Loppumaton maara vuorien jonoja ja jaatikoita, kaukana alhaalla syvansininen Karakul-jarvi. Yovyimme jarven rannalla kylassa jonka nimi oli myos yllatyksellisesti Karakol. Jalleen yksi ...
High Altitude Karakul Lake
... every lake in Central Asia seems to be named Karakul (black lake) but this one was pretty nice - and much larger than the Karakul lake I visited in China, south of Kashgar. Stayed at a nice homestay, and got an excellent bowl of soup for lunch, which ...
Karakul
... snow line and then descending a little, we headed toward brown and blue mountains with thick snow caps overlooking cerulean blue water ("Karakul," said the driver). I found a homestay with a really great family -- I don't know the name, but it's the very ...
Ahhh.....grab me a beer, it's the Pamirs!
... ?" "Thirty days" "Three Zero?" "Tri Zero. Exactly" Exactly. So, now that we are here it will not be hard for Tajikistan to make a better impression on us then. And already, in just two days we have had an excellent experience of the Pamir ...
It's not Cork
... be full from Murgab and continue to well past the border. Returning to the village we passed like an army camp, a checkpoint between Karakul and the Chinese border. So as Harshal & Deepti continue back towards town, meself & Gearoid paid the camp ...
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