Also, what are the best ways to travel the Pamir Highway? Are shared taxis better and possible at all?

Thank you! I’ll be spending two days exploring the Fann Mountains and Iskanderkul Lake before heading to Dushanbe, Khorog, and Wakhan Valley. I’ve dec...

Thanks for the advice! I’ll try to extend my trip by another day or two. By the way, is late April a good time to travel the Pamir Highway, or should ...

Regular city bus (N169) in Tashkent costs 2,000 sum (1,700 with a card). It takes about 40 minutes to get to the 'Shahristan' metro station. The stop ...

Then you should be fine. Kyrgyzstan is much easier, maybe because you’re often descending into valleys, and you don’t stay at high altitudes for too l...

@mmmmakarov just for your info about the roads. No matter how tempting it is, stick to the speed limit. In towns, there are homemade speed bumps every...

No, we didn’t. We arrived in the evening, and left early the next morning (we had to head to Cholpon-Ata and then Bishkek that same day). We didn’t ha...

We left Son-Kul at 8 AM. We stopped for photos at two passes (Terskey Torpok was really beautiful, we probably stayed there for about half an hour — t...

Honestly, I don’t know which is the northern or southern shore, but all the camps were on one shore. Since we were coming from north to south and just...

There are many yurt camps at Son-Kul. They are all along one shore. Each "camp" has from 3 to 7 yurts. They are almost all lined up together, and some...

When we arrived at Song-Kul in the evening, it was snowing(!). However, the snowstorm passed quickly, and the clouds dispersed, revealing a clear suns...