Tajikistan - Sophie Ibbotson

This new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Bradt's Tajikistan remains the most practical and widest-ranging guide dedicated exclusively to Central Asia's smallest country. Tajikistan offers travellers unforgettable experiences: epic mountain trekking routes, crystal-clear lakes, the world's biggest teahouse and fabulous wildlife watching (think snow leopard and the extraordinary Marco Polo sheep) alongside ancient Buddhist sites, Silk Road trading posts, medieval shrines and planned Soviet cities. Locals call Tajikistan Bam-i-Dunya ('the roof of the world'), and travelling the world's second-highest road, the Pamir Highway - or hiking the 1,3010-km-long Pamir Trail, which opened was completed in 2024 and features in this new edition - you can understand why. With peaks nearly as high as those in the Himalayas, and a complex culture drawing its diverse heritage from Persia, China, Afghanistan and Russia, Tajikistan is the least familiar of the 'Stans, and many areas remain untouched, making the country ideal for curious travellers keen to explore off the beaten path.Bradt's guidebook covers every corner of Tajikistan, from the Wakhan Corridor Valley to the Fann Mountains and Garm Chashma springs, Dushanbe to the UNESCO World Heritage sSites of Sarazm and Tajik National Park. With first-hand descriptions of everything from Sogdian ruins to the traditional sport of buzkashi (polo with a livestock carcass), trekking on the Murgob Murghab Plateau and eating shashlik in garden
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