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Tajikistan Tours
Immersive expeditions into Tajikistan's most remarkable wild places. Led by local experts, built for the curious traveller.
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The Pamir Highway Grand Tour
A 14-day expedition from Dushanbe to Osh: Bartang Valley gorge walk, Wakhan Corridor along the Afghan border, Zorkul Lake at 4,125m, Marco Polo sheep conservancy at Alichur, and Ak-Baital Pass at 4,655m across Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
TAJIKISTAN
The Pamir Highway Grand Tour
A 14-day expedition from Dushanbe to Osh: Bartang Valley gorge walk, Wakhan Corridor along the Afghan border, Zorkul Lake at 4,125m, Marco Polo sheep conservancy at Alichur, and Ak-Baital Pass at 4,655m across Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
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Fedchenko Glacier Traverse
The longest non-polar glacier on Earth: 77 km of ice, up to 1,000 meters thick, reachable only by crossing the Bartang Valley and ascending through a series of high passes. Pamir Trips runs the only commercial traverse, following the route of the 1928 German-Soviet expedition - 25 days, 60-meter rappels, complete self-sufficiency for 14 days on the glacier itself, and views of Peak Ismoil Somoni the entire way. Prior glacier experience is mandatory. Groups are capped at six people strictly.
Lake Sarez Expedition
In 1911 a 7.4-magnitude earthquake triggered a landslide that buried a village and created the world's tallest natural dam - 567 meters of rubble now holding back a lake 500 meters deep at 3,200 meters elevation. There is no road to it. Access requires a special permit from Tajikistan's Ministry of Emergencies, a 9-hour approach trek through the Bartang Valley, and camping on the dam itself. Scientists monitor it continuously; a second major earthquake could flood five million people across four countries downstream.
Snow Leopard Tracking with ANCOT, Darvoz Region
The Association of Nature Conservation Organizations of Tajikistan runs the most legitimate snow leopard conservation tourism program in Central Asia. Former poachers serve as the tracking rangers. EcoVoyager Expeditions run in January and February only, 11 or 17 days, combining camera trap deployment with biologists, hiking 40 to 60 kilometers through the Hazratishoh range, and near-guaranteed sightings of Tajik markhor and Siberian ibex in herds of hundreds. Revenue funds the anti-poaching patrols directly. Tajikistan holds approximately 280 snow leopards.
Wakhan Corridor: Yamchun to Langar
The Tajik Wakhan follows the Panj River along the Afghan border, with the Hindu Kush visible directly across the water. The 90-kilometer stretch from Yamchun to Langar passes a 3rd-century BC Zoroastrian fortress, over 6,000 Bronze Age petroglyphs carved into cliff faces above Langar village, a 4th-century Buddhist stupa with hermit caves, and Bibi Fatima Hot Springs - a sacred Ismaili pilgrimage site inside a calcite cave, named for the Prophet's daughter, believed for centuries to grant fertility. Afghan villages are visible throughout, often within shouting distance across the river.
Yagnob Valley Immersion
The Yaghnobis are the last people on Earth who speak a language descended directly from ancient Sogdian, the lingua franca of the Silk Road. Around 300 people live year-round across ten settlements of three to eight families each, at 2,500 to 3,000 meters, with no electricity, no road access in winter, and subsistence agriculture unchanged for centuries. The Soviets evacuated the entire population by helicopter to cotton plantations in 1970. Some returned.
Nomads Pathways Horse Trek, Eastern Pamir
8-day horse trek across the Eastern Pamir plateau at 3,500 to 4,600 meters with ethnic Kyrgyz shepherd teams whose families have grazed these highlands since the 17th century. The route crosses the Madyan Valley, the Alichur plateau, and the Pshart highlands, overnighting in yurts and tents alongside working nomads rather than staged cultural performances. Marco Polo sheep are visible from horseback most days. This is some of the highest sustained horse travel available anywhere on Earth, on a plateau that looks and feels nothing like any other place on the continent.
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Where to Go in Tajikistan
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Dushanbe
Tajikistan's capital sits at 780 meters in the wide Hissar Valley, flanked by the Pamir-Alay. Once a small Monday market town, Dus…
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Pamir Highway (M41)
The M41 stretches over 1,200 kilometers from Dushanbe to Osh in Kyrgyzstan, crossing passes above 4,600 meters. Built by Soviet en…
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Wakhan Valley
Perhaps the most extraordinary inhabited land in Central Asia, the Wakhan is a narrow corridor between the Pamirs and Afghanistan'…
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Iskanderkul Lake
Known as the Lake of Alexander, Iskanderkul is the largest lake in the Fann Mountains, set at 2,195 meters about 130 kilometers no…
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Fann Mountains
A sub-range of the western Pamir-Alay, the Fann Mountains are among Central Asia's finest trekking landscapes. The highest peak, C…
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Yagnob Valley
Set between the Zeravshan and Hissar ranges at 2,500 to 3,000 meters, the Yagnob Valley is home to the Yagnobis, the last descenda…
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Karakul Lake
Karakul sits at 3,914 meters in the eastern Pamir, one of the world's highest large lakes, formed by a massive meteorite impact ro…
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Murghab
At 3,612 meters, Murghab is the highest town in Tajikistan and the main hub of the eastern Pamirs, a cluster of mud-brick building…
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Khorog
Capital of Gorno-Badakhshan, Khorog sits at 2,075 meters where the Gunt and Panj rivers meet. A city of about 30,000, it is the cu…
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Panj River Valley & Afghan Border
The Panj River forms Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan for over 700 kilometers, one of the world's most extraordinary border la…
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Rushan & Bartang Valley
Branching north from the Pamir Highway at Rushan, the Bartang Valley cuts over 200 kilometers into the central Pamirs toward Sarez…
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Sarez Lake
Sarez Lake was born in 1911 when a catastrophic earthquake sent an estimated six billion tonnes of rock across the Murgab River, f…
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Fedchenko Glacier
The Fedchenko Glacier is the longest valley glacier in the world outside the polar regions, running 77 kilometers through the hear…
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Hisor Fortress
Thirty kilometers west of Dushanbe, Hisor Fortress stands on foundations with over 3,000 years of continuous occupation. The curre…
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Kulob
Tajikistan's second-largest city, Kulob sits in Khatlon Province, southeast of Dushanbe. It claims 2,700 years of history and is r…