No one seems to know what is needed to get a visa to Tajikistan. Even the Foreign Ministry in Tajikistan had problems advising Audrey’s former Tajik colleagues at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty regarding what was required. It appears to be embassy specific and heavily dependent on the relationship between Tajikistan and the country from which you happen to be applying. In other words: Continue Reading »
- Sex and the Central Asian Visa
- Turkmenistan Visas and Letters of Invitation (LOI)
- Uzbekistan Visas and Letters of Invitation (LOI)
- Kazakhstan Visas and Letters of Invitation (LOI)
- Kyrgyzstan Visas
- Tajikistan Visas and GBAO Permits
Filed Under: Tajikistan, Travel by: Daniel Noll
2 Comments | 6 February 2008
The following is a bulleted list of sites and markers along the famed Pamir Highway, all the way from Osh, Kyrgyzstan to Khorog, Tajikistan. This particular list follows the southern route (Langar to Ishkashim) along the Wakhan Valley that traces the Tajik-Afghan border. Continue Reading »
- The Pamir Mountains and Wakhan Valley – People and Landscape
- Pamir Mountains and Wakhan Valley: Transport, Accommodation and Food
- Stories and Highlights from the Pamir Mountains
- Pamir Mountains, Pamir Highway and Wakhan Valley Sites
Filed Under: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments | 5 January 2008
Filed Under: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments | 5 January 2008
Filed Under: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
2 Comments | 5 January 2008
Our visit to the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan introduced us to some the most spectacular scenery we’ve taken in on our journey thus far. Other mountainous areas, hyped in guidebooks and on travel websites, have only paled in comparison. The Pamir region not only stands out for the severity and beauty of its landscape, but it shines most of all for the colorful, hospitable and fascinating Pamiri people who live there. Continue Reading »
- The Pamir Mountains and Wakhan Valley – People and Landscape
- Pamir Mountains and Wakhan Valley: Transport, Accommodation and Food
- Stories and Highlights from the Pamir Mountains
- Pamir Mountains, Pamir Highway and Wakhan Valley Sites
Filed Under: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
19 Comments | 5 January 2008
Welcome to the last installment of our photos from Central Asia. Yes, the umbilical cord with the former Soviet Union has finally been cut. We have exchanged Cyrillic letters for Mandarin characters and statues of Lenin for Mao. But before we get ahead of ourselves, we leave you with images from Tajikistan. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Central Asia, Photography, Tajikistan, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
12 Comments | 11 November 2007
Having just uncorked our first bottle of Chinese wine, we began to reminisce about the small, lovely and affordable French wine collection we’d built in Prague (then quickly quaffed), thanks to the Salon de Vignerons Independants (French Independent Vintners Festival) that we attended in February 2005 and February 2006 in Strasbourg, France.
In addition to tasting over 300 different wines at those two events, we returned home with a small cache of 100 bottles. The taste and quality of the bottles we purchased belied the fact that most of them cost well under 10 Euros. We could continue our little daydream here, but we’ll leave you to read this article that we wrote about the Salon earlier this year.
Now, back to our current reality… Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Central Asia, China, Food, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Wine by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
10 Comments | 6 November 2007
As the end of our Tajik visas rapidly approached (overstaying one’s visa in Tajikistan comes highly unrecommended), circumstances forced us to take a puddle-jumping lunch box with wings from Khorog, the main town in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains, to the country’s capital Dushanbe.
The following is a two minute video from the flight. The first 30 seconds are from the taxi and takeoff of the previous day’s flight. The next 90 seconds are mid-air. Keep in mind that the camera was not on zoom. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Central Asia, Tajikistan, Travel, Videos by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
19 Comments | 29 October 2007
