Tajikistan Pamir Adventure - Expedition 21 days

Incorporating some of the most spectacular mountain passes and ancient cities of the Silk Road, our journey takes us through culturally rich and ethnically diverse areas that rarely see foreign travellers and have little tourist infrastructure. We drive from cosmopolitan Tashkent to Dushanbe - a national capital more on the scale of a rural centre - before several days of travel skirting Afghanistan's northern border. Far above the river valleys the road winds with kilometre after kilometre of stunning mountain landscape broken by tiny villages that seem to be cast back in time. We journey to the remote Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) of Tajikistan, a region better known for the colourful 'Great Game' events that took place here in the late 19th Century. Traversing the full length of the Pamir Highway from Khorog to Osh, our route incorporates rugged roads and stark yet beautiful high-altitude desert plateaux, each day revealing a new and more beautiful aspect to little-known Tajikistan. Finally we cross one of the world's most remote and desolate borders into Kyrgyzstan, overnighting in yurts at the very crossroads of the Silk Road at Sary Tash, a caravanserai that has served weary travellers for many centuries. Combining breathtaking landscapes with glimpses of a centuries-old way of life, this Expedition will amply reward the traveller who is willing venture to what locals call 'Bom-i-Dunyo' - the Roof of the World