2 Days Private Tour to Pamir Highway

Ziua 1 · Dushanbe- Darvaz

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   Qalaikhumb

   8 ore

   Meeting at your Hotel and start the tour to Pamir,

   We set off east towards the Pamirs and Kalaikhumb, driving through beautiful scenery and interesting villages en route.  After Kulob we enter a more desolate part of the Pamir highway. We cross our first mountain pass(2200m) and at the top first view into Afghanistan. Below runs the Panj river, the border with Afghanistan, that we follow the rest of the day. It’s a strange experience to be so close to Afghanistan At the other side of the river runs the Afghan road where we see villagers passing by on motorbikes or walking around with their donkeys.

Overnight in Qalai khumb (Guesthouse)

Ziua 2 · Qalaikhumb-Dushanbe

1. 1

   Hulbuk Museum

   5 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Early morning we driving the same way back to Dushanbe

   On the road visiting Hulbuk Fortress.Khulbuk was part of the ancient city of Hishtep and the center of the Huttal region in the 9th-12th centuries as part of the Gaznevid state. The total area of the settlement is about 70 hectares, but most of it is occupied by modern buildings. The citadel, palace and ruins of some ancient structures have been preserved. Currently, the ancient complex is a historical museum-reserve “Halbuk”, occupying 16 hectares. In 2006, Halbuk was opened to visitors after a thorough reconstruction.

   The citadel has a rectangle shape of 50 × 150 m and consists of two parts. The south (50x50 m) is surrounded by 15-meter walls, the north is larger in area, but its walls are lower - 10 m.

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   Nurek Dam

   2 ore

   Our next stop is Nurek reservoir, stoping near Small Bazar with Viewpoint to reservoir before arriving in Dushabe. Nurek Dam and hydroelectric station is an enormous earth-fill dam located in a deep gorge at 38.3715 N, 69.3492 E, on the Vakhsh River in the central Asian nation of Tajikistan. It is about 75 km east of Dushanbe. At 300 m (984 ft), it is the tallest dam in the world as of 2008. (The Rogun Dam, under construction up the river, is expected to be even higher when completed, at 335 m (1,099 ft). Currently, the dam makes up 75% of the country's total electricity production (3.0 of 4.0 Gigawatts), and provides for more than 90% of its power needs. Construction of the dam began in 1961 and was completed in 1980,