Country Info
- Dushanbe
- Capital
- Somoni (TJS)
- Currency
- 6,578,681
- Population
- TJ
- Country Code
Tajikistan Slideshow
Tajikistan
Travel Blogs from Tajikistan
Car shock is broken off...ahh sure its grand
Now it was timke for some adventure travel. We were to head up into the Fan mountains to a little lake called Iskander Kul. First taxi offer - $100 bluh to that (I should state that we were trying to hire a taxi to bring us a few hundred kms - can you ...
Port Said
Der Vollständigkeit halber sei hier ein Link zu "Чёрные глаза" gepostet, dem Lied über schwarze Augen, das man in der ehemaligne Sowjetunion kennt und das vielleicht eine gewisse ...
Owww...cramps in me ass
On thursday morning, we get up earlyto get a taxi to the north of the country.We get a good deal(we didnt have to bargain...how is this possible??)for 120somani (about 35euro for a 10hr..or so we think..journey). Now we were in a MitibushiPajero 4WD ...
A Sunday out
Zwischen Duschanbe und Almaty verkehren nicht jeden Tag Flüge, was mich dazu zwang auch das Wochenende in Duschanbe zu verbringen. Was macht man also an einem Sonntag in Duschenbe? Ich versuchte es einfach mal mit einem dieser vielen kleinen ...
Bread for Breakfast, Rice for Tea
... hill, there it was - Sary Tag. A beautiful collection of wooden houses in a forgotten valley way up in the Fan mountains of Tajikistan. As we walk down the road into the village, accross the little wooden bridge, a farmer comes up to us. After figuring ...
Bargaining and Borders (with magic police)
... We find its lunch time for the guards so we have to hang around. We meet a crazy German who is going to cycle all over Tajikistan...its a long way (and some of the highest passes in the world) and we were to find later probably the worse roads in the ...
Tajik nightingale. Ain't that grand? (Beauty)
... Everest has swapped me his ancient kalashnikov for my battered guitar and I am sitting in no mans land between Afghanistan and Tajikistan being sung Tajik folk love ballads in a strong, full baritone emitted from flashes of gilded teeth. In the most ...
Tajik Hijak (Adventure)
... . Hour later walked the 800 meters passed stoned guards wielding automatic weapons to a little run down hut that marks the Tajikistan border. Five huge guards pulled me into the hut and asked me the standard Russian questions: where you from?, how ...
Not bored at borders (adventure)
The thudding in my head has words, "what the f*ck are you doing here Mellett?", "what the f*ck are you doing here Mellett? F*ck your stupid. What the F*ch are you doing here?". I look around what was once a room. In front of the leprous plaster, ...
Fan Mountains
Relaxing a few days in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe was almost a mandatory choice after the rather rough mountain adventures at Lenin and Pamirs. Having spent the few days enjoying restaurants and internet in Dushanbe, I still had one week before the ...
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 ...
Independence Day
. We were woken very early Monday morning by a Pakistani man who was sharing the room with us. He must have been suffering from night terrors or something because a little after four he starts shouting, almost chanting, 'mumbo jumbo' 'hurdy gurdy' in ...
The Toddler Shakedown
... out into the Tajik back country, following the Vanj river valley that marks the border between - yes you guessed it, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. We stopped off at the hot springs, where i was planning to bathe, but alas the sight of two dozen naked ...
Dushanbe
Welcome to Tajikistan! we will spend a few days in Dunshanbe before making our way to the Tajik Pamir for our 3rd ...
First foray into the hills
... Yvo had climbed the first 6 pitches. The plan was the abseil down from the top and climb/bolt the last two pitches. Although Tajikistan appears to be full of rock, closer inspection finds most of the rock to be falling apart. This soaring piece of rock, ...
fucking bribes
Early in the morning, there was still lots of mist in the streets, I took a bus to the train station. After bargaining for some minutes with a cabdriver, he agreed to bring me to the boarder for 10 USD. I was a little confused, because that seemed far to ...
Wrapping up our visit
Last day in Khujand, time to wrap things up. Headed out early to the jammoat. This time our man was there, and turned out to be very friendly, he took us to meet the head honcho and mayor of the town, who made lots of jokes (in Tajik). Saw a vulture by ...
Going home, first bowel problems
Back to Dushanbe Spent the day driving back to Dushanbe. More snow covered the mountains than earlier in the week, soon it will be more treacherous (we will travel over it again next month). Chatted with guy on bus whose 16 year old son was interested in ...
Nothing but Trouble
... appreciation for the efforts of our drivers. The road standards we come to take for granted in Australia simply do not exist here, although with time and the help of Chinese and Turkish engineering, travelling in Tajikistan should improve in the ...
Hitching to Hissar!
Woke up and headed to the bus station... down the road/track from my flat. Met up with Masoud and Bagtash, two young Afghanis who make their living off taking expats around Dushanbe in return for buying them food etc. Both were pretty energetic, ...
Yes, Mr President
... of Tajikistan to a 10th century hero called Ismali Somoni. While not ranking high on the corruption and transparency ladder, Tajikistan is riding an economic boom thanks mainly to its cotton and aluminum production and quite possibly, with a little help ...
Setting up the Project
... thought tasted no different to Dushanbe. The price, quality of osh and shashliik (kebabs) is a favourite topic of conversation in Tajikistan! After lunch we visited a town right on the Uzbek border in which a youth bank had already been established. The ...