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Travel across nostalgic Tajikistan through the high Pamir Mountains and the region of Gorno-Badakshan, today under growing Chinese influence. Inhabited by the Pamiri community, the East holds striking cultural differences with the West, due to the Ismaili

Desert. Around Khargush, in th eHigh eastern Pamir.

Traveling through the Wakhan corridor (on the border with Afghanistan) and into the Eastern Pamir of Tajikistan (on the border with China, Xinjiang province) - home of Wakhi and Kyrgyz minority.

Tajikistan and the Tajik Pamir mountains (province of Gorno Badakhshan), summer 2009.

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Desert. Around Khargush, in th eHigh eastern Pamir.<br />
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Traveling through the Wakhan corridor (on the border with Afghanistan) and into the Eastern Pamir of Tajikistan (on the border with China, Xinjiang province) - home of Wakhi and Kyrgyz minority.<br />
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Tajikistan and the Tajik Pamir mountains (province of Gorno Badakhshan), summer 2009.