Country Info
- Dushanbe
- Capital
- Somoni (TJS)
- Currency
- 6,578,681
- Population
- TJ
- Country Code
Tajikistan Slideshow
Tajikistan
Travel Blogs from Tajikistan
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 ...
Khorog
... In Khorog, I found a homestay, 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 ...
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 ...
Murghab, Tajikistan
Rolled in on a Friday evening, and it looks like I now have about 15 minutes of internet before everything closes for the weekend and I roll out. The Pamirs have been AMAZING! Luckily I've had the wind blowing on my back and it's been gentle fun riding ...
Travel Oscars: Part II
... day horse trek, Kyrgyzstan, from Kara Suu to Song Kol via Koly Kok with Michiel. 8. Assorted scrambles up Pamir peaks, Tajikistan - Karakul promontory, Bulunkul and Wakhan Viewpoint (Thanks Taco, Lara and Kei!). 9. Bibi Fatima Hot spring in Yamchun, ...
Finally...a note from Sarah!
Hello from Dushanbe! Sorry for the delay in posting...I hope I didn't have anyone worried. As Dan mentioned we have a bunch of posts and pictures almost ready for you to fill in the gaps from the last month. There is a lot to fill you in ...
Langar - a kind of closing
As we all know the world is a very strange place. But just in case we are tempted to forget, along comes something so absurd that we are jolted back into our reality. I felt very much in this position - brought back into humble alignment with our ...
First time in Dushanbe
The Tajiks are a traditional people. Western culture is just piercing their society, and many opportunities exist there. The women wear traditional dresses around town which consist of a long comfortable looking, beltless dress that hangs ...
A look into Afghanistan
This morning we went a few k's out of Khorog town to visit the 'Afghan Bazaar' which is a market held every saturday where Afghans on the other side of the river are allowed to come and sell there wares to the Tajiks. In truth the border separates people ...
Dushanbe
Heading toward Dushanbe, the green tree-covered mountains gave way to higher ones, with occasional views of some steep white peaks in the distance. We went through some pretty terrain, with white rivers and waterfalls. The road was rough ...
January 08 Tajikistan
... instrument museum / recording studio. There was a wide collection of setars, tars, tanburs, and rubabs from Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, among other traditional instruments from the region. Now mind you, the only instrument I had ever ...
Gissar and a hunt
My day trip yesterday was quite an event. It started harmlessly enough, in typical Tajik fashion. My host was an hour and half late in picking me up, but I wasn't discouraged by this, since by now I am used to this ...
In Khorog
... indistguishable from your side of the river. For several hundred kilometres we tracked alongside the Panj river- the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. For a border of such significance it was a surprise to find that it offered little more than ...
Khorog - gateway to the Pamirs
... 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 of the ...
Alichur - life at 4,000m
(Jim) The next morning was another stunner (we'd stopped wondering what the weather would be like when we opened the curtains way back in Syria – in this part of the world there was always a cloudless blue sky outside) so we decided to go for a ...
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. ...
Langar - centre of the Wakhan Valley
(Sim) About a kilometer down the hill from the Bibi Fatima springs we stopped Yumchun Fort, we climbed out of the car and stood in awe admiring the panorama that lay before us. The Fort was built in the 12th century and couldn't have been better ...
Dushanbe - the transit lounge of Central Asia
... sample some of what the locals ate and compare their food to that back home. For now this would have to wait. On our way to Tajikistan we had read that the flight from Dushanbe to Khorog, at the start of the Pamir Highway, was one not to be missed (or ...
Ishkashim - shopping in Afghanistan
... Our next stop along the Wakhan was Khakha Fortress, which dated back to the 3rd century BC. As with many of the sites in Tajikistan there was no one in sight for miles around and it looked like the fortress, made from natural rock, had been discarded for ...
Geisev Valley - a hikers paradise
(Jim) The Geisev Valley formed a side branch of the Bartang River valley, a tributary of the Pyanj River, about an hours drive to the north of Khorog. For the first hour of our trip we retraced our steps from the drive down from Dushanbe, again taking in ...
Jayus..we are driving through snow
Early start this morning as we had arranged a lift with the guys from the previous day for 7 in the morning! Twas a chilly morning - condensation in the breath. No time for breakfast (you know me - although didnt want just bread and tea again) and the ...
Artuch - Tajikistan at last!
... with Tajikistan, the sixth country on our Journey. We were both looking forward to "getting our hands dirty" in Tajikistan, especially after travelling the relative tourist super-highway in Uzbekistan. According to the Lonely Planet Tajikistan is Central ...
Murghab - transport hub with no transport
(Sim) Murghab is an isolated high altitude town that feels like it has been built on the crust of another planet. With it's boxy low-rise flat roofed houses scattered over dry unvegetated earth and its little shops built from rusting shipping containers, ...
Rushan - the best 4 hours sleep ever
... police checkpoint, where our driver immediately jumped out and pressed a small bundle of notes into the nearest policeman's hand. In Tajikistan it seems these stops are more “cheque points” than check points, intended to line the police ...
To the valley...yonder
After a bit of a sleep in recovering from last nights antics, we get a taxi to a nearby village (feck the tour agents - we will do it ourselves) in a side valley off the Dushanbe road we came from a few days ago. Amazing beautiful little valley ...
Arriving in Dushanbe
Im Flugzeug voll mit Gastarbeitern sind die Stewardessen nicht sonderlich zimperlich, so ein bisschen eine Mischung aus NVA Krankenschwester und Köchin im Schullandheim. Wie üblich in Zentralasien springen alle Gäste beim Aufsetzen der Flugzeugräder ...