Country Info
- Dushanbe
- Capital
- Somoni (TJS)
- Currency
- 6,578,681
- Population
- TJ
- Country Code
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Tajikistan
Travel Blogs from Tajikistan
Looking for a new jeep in Khorog
We left from Langar and did the rest of the Wakhan Corridor today, taking time to hike up to some castles and take a lot of photos of the beautiful valley and the impressive Hindukush mountain range across the Panj river in Afghanistan. We arrived in ...
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
Well. After a walk through the city we finally returned to the ticket office. Not a soul in sight. This didn't look promising. Fortunately there was a new girl there who spoke sone English. Turns out the plane only holds five people a flight. She ...
Umpikujia
Suunnitelma lahtea tutkimaan Bartang-laaksoa hukkui tulvavesien alle. Kuulimme sattumalta eraalta venalaiselta, etta tie Bartangiin oli poikki kolmesta kohtaa joen tulvimisen vuoksi. Nopea suunnitelmien muutos: lahdimme seuraavana aamuna aikaisin kohti ...
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 ...
Putting fate into the hands of strangers
By the recommendation of another traveler at the hotel, I decided to go to the Bartang valley. Taking only a small pack with me, I went to the bus station early in the morning. Not many people were going to the valley so I spent several hours waiting for ...
A walk in the park and back to pre-mobile days
I take a bus down to the bazaar which is a desultory affair on Sunday. Only a few stall selling some fruit and vegetables. Khorog on Sunday has as much life as a wet Sunday in the Highlands of Scotland in the sixties. It is quiet and sleepy and nothing ...
High Altitude Karakul Lake
well 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, ...
The Western Pamirs - Reaching out to Afghanistan
About 5 hours before reaching Khorog, the main city of the Pamirs, you get to this extremely narrow valley with huge, 5000 to 6000meters rocky peaks towering above you (a landscape that characterize most of the western Pamirs). Adding to my excitement is ...
Finally in Dushanbe
I had run into a German guy at the Afghanistan border and asked him what Dushanbe was like. "Have you been to any other former soviet countries?" he asked. I thought of Mongolia. "It's like that." As we passed through the suburbs I started to think ...
Gas station
... one a little better. Still both not really well enough for conversation. So after lunch at one of the thousand schaschlik places in Tajikistan we went on to Chakalsk, which is supposed to be usually another day trip. You can guess how long it took. Main ...
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...
Crossing the border between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan is easy enough. Some football small talk and a friendly $2 bribe to 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 ...
I really worked...
Hello... today was the first day that I really worked, meaning I was busy for more than 6 hours doing something with my own hands. I made two technical drawings for the pump. Was not really challanging but felt good to have something to do. It is ...
The air pressure tank
Hello everybody, today some more news from my work. Finally I got some engineers work from my boss. Actually two projects. First one is not so interesting. It is about the treatment of the waste from the ethanol production which is mainly made up of ...
Murghab
We are off! On a 6 day jeep trip to Khorog via Shakty, Bulunkul and Sassyk Lake, Langar, Vrang, Yamchun, Ishkeshim and Garm Charshma. The first half will track the Pamir highway to Bulunkul before we head south to the Wakhan Valley and follow the ...
My b.. f.. tajik wedding
... early, eat plof, which is nice for lunch or dinner but not for breakfast, and go home straight afterwards. But it is Tajikistan... I went home as well and took a nap. The main celebration took place in the evening starting at 5. Again about 600 ...
The Pamir Highway
... point at stopping so we could meet his mates along the way. For lunch we stopped in one Kyrgyz village (even though it's in Tajikistan, the Eastern Pamir is in majority Kyrgyz) and were invited in the house of his friend, the local doctor. A very friendly ...
Air pressure tank
... a place with Acrobat Reader, which is mostly unknown here but used in all documents in Civilization, uuppps Western world...It is Tajikistan... But now to todays topic. Actually I am trying for three days now to get this story and the pictures to the ...
Working in Tajikistan
Hello everybody, still doing fine, learning my Russian almost everynight. Weather is great, 30 Celsius during day, less than 20 at night give a good sleep. My host family is providing me with the various tajik dishes and trying to make me become like ...
Km 8701, Dushanbe
So wenige Kilometer in so vielen Tagen habe ich noch selten geschafft. Es hat aber seine Gründe. Zuerst noch zu Usbekistan; Nach Buchara bin ich zwei Tage später in Samarkand eingetroffen. Dort habe ich nochmals richtig relaxt. Mein Magen war noch ...
Working
Hello, here some more news from Central Asia. With delight I finally got notice that Braunschweig is in first place of Regionlliga and if they do not screw up as last time... Anyways, getting any news here without internet is impossible. Although I ...
A Flight over Afghanistan
Here are some photo's of our first and only little plane flight of our trip so far- from Khorog to Dushanbe. To explain the flight Ý have lazily deferred to the email that i sent to my parents afterwards. Here it is: "Mum + Dad, we are safe and ...
Murgab
Heading out of Khorog, we stopped to refuel, which involved filling buckets with gasoline and pouring them into the tank using a giant funnel. A fair number of Chinese trucks used this stretch of road -- which was decently paved, but really ...
Khojand
... of touristic interest. There's a 10th-century citadel and an attractive mosque/medressa/mausoleum complex -- but it's really just a nice modern city, and a pleasant stopover before beginning the long journey through the high mountains of Tajikistan. ...
Karakul
As we drove through the reddish landscape dotted with scrub and rocks toward the big snowy mountains, cute red marmots kept scurrying across the road (but we managed not to hit any). We passed several herds of yak, and some clusters of yurts ...
Istaravshan
The marshrutka ride to Istaravshan went through relatively flat land -- with farms nicely tended by groups of women -- and only took an hour and a half. I stopped at Istaravshan because it's said to have a well-preserved old town -- and indeed it ...