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  1. Tajikistan Directory

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 15 September 2009

    Ups: 1. GREAT trekking opportunities (Fan mountains, Pamir). 2. Warm hospitable people. especially Western Fan mountains. 3. Ice-cream (mirozhna in Russian) machine at every corner, especially in Khorog. 4. Dushanbe is great for finding Western food products. Downs: 1. Expensive, well relatively expensive, public transport. especially in the Pamir. 2. Very bad ifrastructure (roads, electricity), especially in the Pamir. 3. Scarce, [...]

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  2. Pamir: Vrang-Sovetabad-Jawshangoz-HWY-Murgab

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 3 September 2009

    After spending 2 weeks in Dushanbe, unable to get a visa to China, we had enough. Too much city-time, and too much food. Solution: head to the Pamirs.  A 24 hour, 130 Somoni and a few broken bones later we got to Khorog, the Pamiri regional capital. Transport to Khorog leaves from the Badakhshanskaya Avstonitsiya, which is on [...]

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  3. Tajikistan visa extension

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 15 August 2009

    We have extended our Tajik visa in Dushanbe, without any travel agent. The consular services office is in Pushkin 30/1, Dushanbe. 8:30-10:30 applications, 14:00-17:00(?). you must give them a filled form (found at the office) 2 copies, 2 passport size photos, photocopy of your passport (information page and Tajik visa page). you are then sent to [...]

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  4. GBAO permit

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 12 August 2009

    We have made our GBAO from today to tomorrow in Dushanbe. we used Pamir Tours and were not happy with their service. a guy met us in the street and actually thought that is normal service (no office, no email…). anyway they charge 40$. the only reason we used them was because their Tashkent office made [...]

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  5. Chinese Visa in Dushanbe

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 6 August 2009

    Bad news. The consulate in Dushanbe is a difficult one. we tried making the visa in Tashkent and gave up, hoping it would be easier here. it’s not. the consol, who is the only person autohorized to deal with foreigners, works Wednesdays and Fridays. after waiting for a very long time outsode, with no obvious queue, [...]

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  6. Fan Mountains

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 4 August 2009

    After 10 days of site-seeing in Uzbekistan it was time to get to the real thing. trekking in central Asia. a marshutka from the Registan stop, Samarkand (3,000 Sum, 30 minutes) took us to the Tajik border. the Uzbek guards didn’y even check the registration slits (which we had for almost every night) and made [...]

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  7. Kyrgyzstan Visa

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 4 August 2009

    We have made our Kyrgyz visa in Dushanbe. the embassy is in Said Nasir 104. Monday,Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 9:00-17:00. a rush process costs 80$ to be payed in the Orienbank down Rudaki Avenue, 600m from the embassy. the embassador will gladly explain where. the visa is issued when you return to the embassador within [...]

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  8. Sleeping

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 4 August 2009

    Penjikent: Nematov Niyozul’s homestay, Rudaki 22/16, niyozkul@mail.ru. it’s behind some small restaurants in the western edge of towns. nice quite place full of tourists. Nematov speaks good English and knows he’s way around the maps of the Fan’s. 10$ per person (private rooms in different sizes). lunch/dinner 5$, breakfast 4$. no reason to eat there, [...]

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  9. Allaudin Pass. Midd trek thoughts

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 3 August 2009

    I am now sitting at the top of Allaudin Pass in the Fan mountains. it is not the highest, and not the lowest. a pass. it is the pass where I have some time to write. People always say “I think my the clearest thoughts when I am in nature”, “I think my best thoughts at [...]

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  10. Tajikistan Visa

    Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 22 July 2009

    We made our Tajik visa in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. the embassy (Abdullah Qahur AttaVI 61, 11AM-1PM Monday-Friday) is not too far from the Tashkent (train station) metro station. Tashkent is the name of the station. the guard reffered us to a small office near the embassy where Pamir Travel is situated. they charge 135$ per person [...]

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  11. Tajikistan

    Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 9 October 2008

    Home to some of the most remote areas of Central Asia, Tajikistan is a great place for those who want to get WAY off the beaten track. But this remote-ness comes at a price.

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