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

Children playing along the Amu Daria river in Tajikistan, Afghanistan is across on the other side.

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Adventure Afghan border Central Asia Cities_Places Community Exploration Groups HIT LIST High Asia High altitude Job Landlocked country Lifestyle Nature Outdoor Pamir People Photography Photojournalism Poorest country Poverty Relief_related Road Roof of the World Smallest Nation Soldiers Soviet Union Systematic_Keywords Tajik Tajikistan Transportation Travel Photography USSR Valley Wakhan Water_related mountains river

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Passage to Pamir