Tajikistan

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TJ
Nationality
Tajik
Path Element
tajikistan
Adjective
Tajik

Khorog Airport

Khorog Airport is a small airport located west of Khorog City, which is the administrative center of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The airport is located near the bank of the Panj River, a cross-border river between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
The airport was built in the Soviet years. It has an asphalt track with a length of 1840 meters. The airport is located at an altitude of 2080 meters and thus one of the highest airports in the world. The airport serves a daily flight with Dushanbe International Airport.

Khorog
Tajikistan

Vanj village and district are located in central Tajikistan. These mountains are made up of conglomerates, granites, sandstones, steep slopes, gorges and narrow river valleys. In some places, the mountains are over 6000 meters above sea level. The Vanj region is a seismically unstable area. Almost every week there are tremors. Long ago, this region was inhabited by people speaking Iranian. In ancient times, it was called "the land of the Saks", in the Middle Ages the region was Islamized. The city was founded in 1933.

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Safed Dara

Safed Dara means the white valley, and it's situated 50 km North of Dushanbé. The old ski resort formerly named Takob was renovated in 2015 and was reopened for the 1st of January 2016. There are 2 T-bar lifts of 1000 meters each, the National ski school, a restaurant and 56 hotel's rooms.

It's also a very good spot for any mountain sport : mountain biking, horse riding, backcountry skiing, ski-touring, hiking, mountaineering.

Safed Dara
Tajikistan

World's Biggest Teahouse

The Dushanbe tea room

Kohi Navruz (Kori Nowruz or Noruz Palace) was designed as a teahouse, but during construction it was transformed into a palace. "Kohi Navruz" consists of 12 unusual rooms, each of them is made in a special style. The complex has an art room, a banquet hall, a living room with carved stone moldings, a plaster room decorated with mirrors, two rooms for important political meetings. In total, the building can accommodate more than 3,200 people.

Dushanbe
Tajikistan

Sary Mazar

The architectural monument of the Sari Mazor Mausoleum is located in the city of Istaravshan in the Sughd region in the north of the Republic of Tajikistan. The Sari Mazor Mausoleum is a 16th century architectural monument and is a two-chamber, two-domed structure.
The mausoleum is built of fired bricks. The building consists of a square dome in the shape of a cross, including an engraved tomb.
The dome of the portal and the tomb rest on arches of the spherical type.

Istaravshan
Tajikistan

Langar's petroglyphs

In the vicinity of the village of Langar, buried in the mighty mountains of Tajikistan, more than 6,000 petroglyphs are hidden, witnesses of ancient times and mute testimonies of a unique culture. Carved on rocky ridges at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, these images are a remarkable monument of ancient history, which strikes the imagination with its mystery and beauty.

Langar
Tajikistan

Hulbuk Palace (Khulbuk)

Hulbuk (Khulbuk) is an ancient citadel in Tajikistan, located near the village of Kurban-Said (Qurbonshahid) in the middle of the village of Pingan, in the Khatlon region, about 26 km southwest of the city of Kulob. The results of excavations at Hulbuk indicate that it was the capital of Khuttal province from the 9th to 11th centuries. The complex includes the Sovereign's Palace, the Citadel and richly decorated ancient dwellings, including figures and animals.

Vose
Tajikistan

Qurghonteppa is the third largest city in Tajikistan and the capital of Khatlon province. It is located in the Vakhsh Valley in southwestern Tajikistan, 119 km south of the capital Dushanbe. According to ancient sources, Qurghonteppa appeared during the time of the Kushan Empire and could be the ancient Levakand. These places were famous for the good arrows and a special breed of sheep. Archaeologists have discovered here pipes from an ancient aqueduct, wells made with bricks, fortress walls with towers.

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One of the largest town located on the Yakhsu River. Maybe more thant 3000 years old. 

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