Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful parts of Central Asia, the Pamir Highway road trip offers a lifetime experience. Travel from Bishkek to Dushanbe on a one-week trip across Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan’s most beautiful mountain passes, sceneries, and alpine lakes.
Crossing the Pamir in 7 days is not for all, and indeed you will constantly move, but we try to adapt to travelers’ needs, and many people only have 7 days to make this M41 Pamir highway epic crossing.
That is what we propose, a Pamir Highway route Express tour from Bishkek to Dushanbe. The unique feature about this Pamir Highway tour is that at a certain point of the trip, we will turn south and head to the Afghan border, driving through the northern part of the historic Wakhan Corridor that is now part of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan.
7-Day Pamir Highway Tour - Bishkek to Dushanbe via Wakhan
Travel from Bishkek to Dushanbe via the Wakhan Corridor on a 7-Day Pamir Highway Tour with 4WD from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan. All-inclusive private package.
Product SKU: KGTJ7/FRU/PAMIR/DYU
Product Brand: RJ Travel - Tour Operator
Product Currency: USD
Product Price: 793
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Bishek
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Dushanbe
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Local guest-houses
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Included
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Only during summer time
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Breakfast, lunch, dinner
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Uzgen, Osh, Sary Mogol, Lenin Peak Base Camp, Karakul, Bash Gumbez, Alichur, Wakhan corridor, Vrang, Yamg, Yamchum, Khorug, Ancient city of Karon
7-day Tajikistan itinerary
An early start out of Bishkek and over the mountains to Uzgen, where an 11th-century Karakhanid minaret and three mausoleums are all that survive of a capital; the brickwork is extraordinary and almost nobody stops. Then Osh, which claims three thousand years, sitting under the sacred mountain of Suleiman-Too.
Overnight: hotel / mountain guest house.
Osh's bazaar at seven in the morning is the real thing — it has been trading on this river, on this spot, for two millennia. Then south into the Alay Valley and up to the base camp of Lenin Peak: 7,134 metres, one of the easiest seven-thousanders in the world to climb and one of the deadliest — an avalanche here in 1990 killed 43 climbers in a single night. You sleep in a mountain guest house.
Overnight: hotel / mountain guest house.
Over the Kyzyl-Art pass at 4,280 metres and across the border into the Tajik Pamirs — the roof of the world. The plateau beyond is high, bare, treeless and utterly silent. Karakul is a lake sitting inside a meteorite crater 25 million years old, at 3,900 metres, frozen most of the year. You stay with a Kyrgyz family, and it is very cold at night.
Overnight: hotel / mountain guest house.
Over the Ak-Baital pass — 4,655 metres, the highest point on the Pamir Highway and one of the highest roads on Earth. Your body will inform you of this. Bash Gumbez is a lonely mausoleum on the plateau; Alichur is a scatter of houses in a valley of yaks and Marco Polo sheep, and you sleep in a family home.
Overnight: hotel / mountain guest house.
Down into the Wakhan Corridor, the strip of land the British and Russians deliberately left between their empires so that their armies would never touch. On one side of the river is Tajikistan; thirty metres away on the other is Afghanistan, and you watch people walking on the far bank. Vrang has a Buddhist stupa cut into the hillside, from when this was a Buddhist road to China. At Yamg stands the house of a Sufi astronomer who built a working solar calendar from a stone and a hole in a wall.
Overnight: hotel / mountain guest house.
Yamchun is a 3rd-century BC fortress on a cliff with the Hindu Kush filling the sky behind it — one of the great views in Asia — and the Bibi Fatima hot springs sit just above it. Khaakha is another fort on the river, still garrisoned. Then Khorog, capital of the Pamirs, which has a botanical garden at 2,320 metres, the second highest in the world, and a university funded by the Aga Khan.
Overnight: hotel / mountain guest house.
Out early and down the Panj, Afghanistan a stone's throw away hour after hour. The ancient city of Karon was only rediscovered in 2012 — a fortress town at 3,000 metres that nobody knew was there. The road follows the river through gorges to Qal'ai Khumb, then west to Dushanbe, arriving in the evening. End of our services.
