Ishkashim, Tajikistan

... every afternoon. Some sections of the road were damaged, and we had to travel across the riverbed. Throughout my travel in Tajikistan, I was travelling in a UAZ (YA3 in Russian) - a very basic Russian jeep. There are not seatbelts. There are no ...

... 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 ...