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The Fan Mountains

by Saagar

The Fan Mountains is acknowledged to be among the most beautiful in the world. It is a eas-west range in west-central Tajikistan, with the main massif in the west. For international travellers the best is possibly to cross in over the Uzbek border from the west; it is a long haul from Dushanbe. Either way you get there, the approach will be interesting. The high Fan massif consists of high peaks (Chimtarga at 5489 meters the tallest], snow capped and with small glaciers hanging about, and a maze of valleys carving up the massif, making it a fairly easy laid-out area for trekking and mountaineering. In terms of objective dangers, the main onwe would probably be altitude sickness due to the high passes, rock slides and in the wrong season hypothermia. If you aim to go there, do come preapared before entering Tajikistan.

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Atomic Tajikistan

by Saagar

In the Soviet era (note than many people in Tajikistan citizens miss that time), Tajikistan was one of the main sources of uranium for the Soviet nuclear program. The city of Saryn in the northern parts of the Khojand area was the source of uranium mined for the first Soviet nuclear bomb (separate tip coming soon!). You will find uranium mines here and there nowadays, too, but I do not think any of them are open for mining for the time being. The worst sites in terms of pollution and radiation have been sealed. If you travel upr the side valley north from Takob, the road takes you right next to a uranium mausoleum, a huge concrete construction topping a sandy hill. This "atomic Tajikistan" is not only an historical event to keep in mind, but very much an ongoing environmental and health disaster.

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Fruit country

by Saagar

Tajikistan along with its neigbours is a faboulous country for fruits. Make a point of sampling some on the way through the country. Apples, peaches, apricots, plums, pears in the mountains; melons, grapes and other in the lowlands.

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Desert country

by Saagar

Most of Tajikistan appears to be either barren rock or desert. While some of the desert landscapes are drab, you will also find really nice desert scenery here and there, notably in the south toward the Afghan-Uzbek border as well as in the north of the Khojand region. The mountain deserts of Gorna Badakshan/Pamir are outstanding. Some of the finest desert scenery that I saw was in the Anzob gorge, near Shaartuz and Kurgan-Tyube. Plan on spending some desert scenery time - don't give it a pass!

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Museum Rudaki

by jorgejuansanchez

I arrived to Panjakent by local buses from Bukhara, in Uzbekistan. In spite of being a modern city with ugly soviet era blocks, Lenin statues and the like, the people still ride horses and donkeys in the streets, and its market is as exotic as the one in nearby Samarqand, which is located next door to the Bibi Janym mosque. After visiting the ruins of the old towns dating from the Sogdian State period (Panjakent means Five Cities) I visited the most famous museum of the country, devoted to Rudaki, the celebrated Tadjik poet (presumably he was blind), father of the Persian poetry (Tadjik language is very close related to the Dari in Afghanistan and to the Farsi in Iran).The museum consists in two parts; the less interesting is the one dedicated to the Bolshevik Revolution with all its propaganda. The best is the second one, called Natural History, sheltering endemic animals preserved by...

Museum of Antiquities

by Pat_Sky1

The most interesting in this museum located in the center of town close to Rudaki (on the other side of Opera Ballet square) is the laying Buddha. It seems to be one of the biggest remaining Buddha in the world!Many other nice archeological pieces can be seen in the museum.

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Hissor Fortress

by Pat_Sky1

The Hissor Fortress, 10 km west of Dushanbe, is the most historical attraction in Tajikistan and is the symbol of the ancient Tajik nation, a local museum displays ceramics, jewelry and clothing from Tajik's past glory.You can count half day for this visit.

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Tajikistan Mountain Valleys

by Pete.Gibson

Mountain valleys, seeing as the country is 90% mountains the valleys are very furtile and where the majority of the people live its also the area where the main export of Tajikstan is grown, Cotton other important crops are Silk and livestock, goats sheep and yaks mainly

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Pamir Mountains

by Pete.Gibson

The Pamir range of mountains stretch over much of TajikistanDuring the summer the shepherds slowly take their animals through the steppes towards the mountains. The Kyrgyz stop at the slopes of the Alai mountains, where they also train hunting falcons, or they move on to the slopes of the Pamirs and set up the traditional Central Asian tents, the yurts, which have been the dwellings of all the nomadic shepherds in this region for centuries. They are shaped like a wide cylinder with a low cone on top and are made of curved willow branches covered with thick felt. inside, the "furniture" consists of a stove, a low table, many rugs and lots of embroidered cloth used to sleep and sit on, and to keep out the cold. The local shepherds were probably the guides for the first explorers of the Pamir

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Yurt Doors

by Pete.Gibson

The doors to the nomads yurts are often quite ornate and brightly painted, the doors threshold is beleived to hold the sprirt of the house and its very offensive to the owner to step on it when entering

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Q:  I am planning to travel from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan around 26 April this year. Given the weather and road condition, where in... 

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A: Accessibility will vary greatly from year to year. you will likely struggle getting around most of the Pamirs. But most of the Fan mountains should be accessible. The... 

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