Tajikistan

Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means "Monday" in the Tajik language. It was so named because it grew from a village that originally had a popular market on Mondays. As of 2014, Dushanbe has a population of 778,500.

Bash Gumbez is a ancient caravanserail 30km east from Alichur. There is a small village and a graveyard on the other side of the river. The site is situated in the valley of Chukury, 28km lower than the pass Bashgumbez (4815m. alt) which let to reach the Zorkul zone and the Pamir river.

Did you know that the Pamir Botanical Garden is the highest mountain park? And also the second highest altitude in the world after the botanical garden of Nepal. It is located at an altitude of 2320 meters above sea level near the city of Khorog, the center of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan. The territory of the garden, broken at the confluence of the two high-mountain rivers Gunt and Shahdara, is 624 hectares. The high-mountain garden was laid in 1940 on the terrace above Khorog. One of its founders was Professor Anatoly Gursky, who together with a group of scientists for almost three decades created here a unique natural laboratory for studying the life of plants in the highlands. Various plants, shrubs, trees from all over the world were brought to the Pamirs. To date, the park has collected more than four thousand species of plants. The Pamir Botanical Garden is the place where you can uncover all the secrets of plants and find out in detail if even you are just an amateur.

(or Kulyab, Kulab). One of the largest town located on the Yakhsu River. Maybe more thant 3000 years old. 

The city is located 2150 meters altitude in the Pamir Mountains, at the confluence of Gunt and Panj rivers. Capital of the GBAO. Khorog is known for its beautiful botanical gardens and poplars dominate the vegetation of the city.

Yamg village is situated 5 km northeast from Yamchun village in the Wakhan corridor, on the tajik side. Yamg is home of Mubarek Kadam Wakhani, a sufi religious poet, philosoph, musician and astronomer. Wakhani lived from 1839 to 1903. Don’t miss the solar calendar for determining Navruz festival's date, just outside the museum. Admission fee is 10 TJS.

On the roof of Central Asia, this small village is the main place of the Pamir. A territory bigger than Switzerland, which is populated by Pamiris and Kyrgyz nomads. Murghab is a place founded by Russian in 1893 as the most advanced military post in Central Asia at the altitude of 3650 meters, and count today about 4000 inhabitants. It located at the junction of the Pamir Highway (M41) and the Murghab River.