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Khorog Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Khorog, Tajikistan
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It's unlikely ever to get better than this
... one, to potter along and take a couple of days doing the main bit of the Pamir Highway from Murgab to Khorog. Pass follows pass. Broad valleys follow ravines. Good tarmac follows rollercoaster tarmac follows potholed tarmac follows piste and all the time ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shakhdara Valley - Wakhan loop
... the 120 liters of fuel we needed to start the loop route through the wakhan corridor - the bottom of the GBAO region of tajikistan where the country is seperated from Afghanistan by a small river. Since we left late, we did the loop backwards, and would ...
Khorog
The Pamir Lodge was full yesterday when I arrived so I booked into a peaceful and comfortable homestay across the road run by Laalmo Mubarakkadamova. Not having experienced what seemed to be the hustle and bustle of the Pamit Lodge where every backer ...
Khorog
... . He hoped to smuggle it out of Tajikstan to be cared for. Because he was buying so much meat the cub was discovered and taken to Khorog. It is now in a cage, an absolutely stunning creature, and seems to be well on the way to being merel.y an exhibit. We ...
Looking for a new jeep in Khorog
... beautiful valley and the impressive Hindukush mountain range across the Panj river in Afghanistan. We arrived in Ishkashim around 4pm and Khorog around 9 pm - plus a flat tire. Back in Khorog our jeep needed to be serviced for 2 days and we wanted ...
Gipfelsieg am Pik Laurin
Oesterreich vermeldet die erfolgreiche Bezwingung des 4777m hohen Pik Laurin ohne zusaetzlichen Sauerstoff! Frohe Botschaft fuer unser Land gelangt durch den Fernmelder aus dem fernen Tajikenreich an unsere Ohren. Zum wiederholten Male hat die ...
A walk in the park and back to pre-mobile days
... to visit the park again. It is a beautifully landscaped piece of work amidst towering mountains and the constant danger of rockslides. Khorog stretches along both banks of the River Gunt in a narrow valley. Huge cliffs and mountains tower above the town. ...
The Western Pamirs - Reaching out to Afghanistan
... here apart from the local administration or Afghan drug trade. The pamirs are one of the poorest region on the planet. In Khorog I team up with Olivier, a french guy that had already travel through Turkey, Iran and Central Asia for the past 2 months. ...
Khorog
... , where I met a gruff Australian who seemed to have already traveled everywhere else in the world except Tajikistan. There wasn't much to do in Khorog, but it was a reasonably pleasant town, located along a river, and I wouldn't have minded killing ...
Travel Oscars: Part II
... raspberries, blackcurrants, cherries, strawberries, pears Shashlyk - Gods gift of meat to the post-India traveler. Afghan Market, Khorog, Tajikistan Also, we have a deep suspicion that our flight to Dushanbe will be a spectacular highlight (hence why ...
A look into Afghanistan
... Shia), at the present time was not at all evident despite my probing (I had only two days ago read, on arriving in Khorog, a BBC report suggesting the Taliban insurgency had never been closer to Kabul.). But I had decided that this was more than a stoic ...
In Khorog
We are now in Khorog in the Gorno-Badakshan region of Tajikistan on the Tajik-Afghan border. This is half time in our tour through Tajikistan. Since the 18th we have been travelling across the Pamir Mountain Range- one the most epic landscapes that ...
Khorog - gateway to the Pamirs
... surprise Khorog felt like small sleepy country town that would take a few hours, at most, to navigate. Khorog suffered badly during Tajikistan's independence from Russia in 1991 and when the money supply dried up completely Khorog reverted to barter. One ...
Khorog - on Afghanistan and the Wakhan Valley
(Sim) Our driver Nush, organised through Pamir Lodge, arrived with his Nissan Patrol at 7:30am. It wasn't long before our bags were stowed up on the roof rack and we were on the road. This time, with just 5 of us (Guellem, Bidell, Akira plus James and ...
Pamir Highway
... cycled off the Pamir Highway and over a 4300m pass into the Wakhan Corridor - a little strip of Afghanistan sandwiched between Tajikistan on the north side of the river and Pakistan just 20 or 30 km to the south - my rear rim cracked. ...
Geisev Valley - a hikers paradise
... from the drive down from Dushanbe, again taking in the sight of Afghanistan across the river. After an hour we turned off the Khorog – Dushanbe road and started up the Bartang Valley. The road quickly turned into a one and a half laner that picked ...
Pamir Highway
... and in a way it was quite similar to Tibet. - Wakhan Corridor that separates Tajikistan and Afghanistan was the most beautiful part of the trip, and driving hundreds of kilometres on a road next to the ...
New Years Eve at the Afghan Boarder
... them from the last restaurant), and coninued out trip along the Afgahan boarder road. At 5 o'clock in the morning, we finally arrived Khorog, a small mountain town in a Pamir Valley, where's not much to do but I got stuck for 4 days because I ran out of ...
Burnt out cars, bullet holes and trouble...
... Alychur. Two French backpackers we had met two days ago were sitting dejectedly outside the cafe. They had been hitchhiking across to Khorog where they had left their favourite camera while they went hiking. They said they had been there for over 24 ...
Due Diligence
... on forms of transport available, costs and agreements that need to be made. In Murghab we were interested in getting to Khorog via the Wakhan Valley which runs parallel for most of the journey with the Afghanistan border, separated only by the Amu-Darya ...
Gorges and Soviet Armor
... ; As the money ran out following the collapse of the USSR, the Soviet troops that were stationed guarding the Afghan/Tajikistan border staged a somewhat disorganized retreat, and the area is littered with old soviet armor. We have had quite a lot of ...
Up Up and Away
... , a little to much for a fifteen seater light aircraft. Over my dead body is there going to be a scramble for seats, I'm getting to Khorog today! So up we go to the main doors, as if 'twas our first visit, testing them, frustrating looks that they're ...
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