An expeditionary overland journey across Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway and Wakhan Valley, combining cultural encounters, remote mountain landscapes and homestay hospitality.
  • Drive the Pamir Highway through high passes and Panj River gorges
  • Admire Hindu Kush and Karakoram peaks from the Wakhan Valley
  • Peer across the Panj River into Afghanistan
  • Trace Silk Road history in the fortresses of the Wakhan Corridor
  • Visit the Karon archaeological site, a rare Zoroastrian water temple
  • Search for markhor goats and herds of Marco Polo sheep
  • Walk the Jizewdara Valley trail between remote villages and dammed lakes
  • Witness Karakul Lake, a vast meteor-impact crater at high altitude
Accommodation combines basic homestays and guesthouses with four hotel nights. Stay in traditional Pamiri chids, with occasional tapchan sleeping outside. In Dushanbe a four-star hotel; Khorog and Kalai Khumb offer hotels; Jarty Gumbez guesthouse has hot springs. Single supplement applies in Dushanbe, Khorog and second stay in Kalai Khumb.