Karakul, Tajikistan Travel Blogs

Never ask a local the way
Sep 23, 2009 (8 photos)

 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 ...

High Altitude Karakul Lake
Sep 27, 2006

... 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 hit ...

Ahhh.....grab me a beer, it's the Pamirs!
Aug 20, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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 Landscape ...