Photos

Silk Road travel:
As we finally made it on the Kotali Saghirdasht (=Khaburabot pereval) the vista to the high Pamir opened to us for the first time: still far away and hidden in the clouds is Qullai Somonyan (formerly called pik Kommunizma), 7495 m alt. Maybe you find it on satellite photo with "Map:view" by zooming out.

The lonely busstop speaks of times long bygone where all-terrain vehicles were used to establish regular bus services for sheperds. Today the link between the capital Dushanbe and the province Kuhistoni Badakhshon is either by private vehicles over this pass or by a much longer, difficult route southward from Dushanbe. Tourists often use the daily flight of the domestic "Tajik Air" to go directly to Khorog.