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Mountain range in Central Asia
Photo: Hindu_Kush_satellite_image.jpg: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC derivative work: Rupert Pupkin, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Pamir mountains, or Pamirs or Pamir Knot, is a large region of high ground at the junction of several other mountain ranges of which the best-known is the Himalayas. The terrain is difficult and the population sparse. There are several mountains over 7,000 m (higher than anything outside the Greater Himalaya region) and some large glaciers.
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PECTA
PECTA is a tourism association comprising drivers, homestays, as well as tour operators and hotels in Pamir. They can help you plan a trip with fair working conditions for the drivers and homestays. Accommodation is not included and paid directly to the homestay owners. The drivers will organise accommodation and point out interesting activities as you travel through the mountains.
Sanatorium
If you're up for a little spa treatment whilst travelling through the Pamirs, take up refuge for a night in this former sanatorium from the Soviet area. Fed by one of the (very) hot springs in the area, diving into the large pool of steaming water takes some courage but luckily there's some cold showers to cool off afterwards. Entry to the pool is included in the room rate. Restaurant with basic food on site.
A special permit is required to enter the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (short GBAO, which covers all of the Tajik part of Pamir).
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Kulob · International · TJU
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on the Pamir Highway surrounded by a large crater lake of the same name
a very remote town in beautiful surroundings
"Ali's curse" is reputed to have been spoken by the prophet's son-in-law Ali on a journey through the area because of the harsh climate and penetrating winds there
a small village on the Parmir Highway between Ishkashim and the Military Post Khargush towards Murgab
a town of 7,700 people on the Afghan border, joined by bridge to an Afghan town of the same name
a town in a steep river valley surrounded by the Pamir mountains that offers hiking and mountain climbing
The Wakhan Corridor (وخان in Persian) is the panhandle of Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan, a long (220 km) narrow (16-64 km) area wedged between Tajikistan to the north and Pakistan to the south. It runs across the southern part of the Pamirs range.
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