Tajikistan

The Gurminj's museum of Musical Instruments situated in the center of Dushanbe is open since 1990 on the basis of a private collection Gurminj Zavkibekov (1929-2003) gifted folk artist. The special value of the collection is the most beautiful Kashgar Setar, who encrusted with ivory. The oldest setar is about 300 years old. Also in the other rooms are located in other departments devoted to clothing, household goods and household items, which are more than 400-500 years old. Today the museum is managed by Pamiri musicians who are ready to play some songs of Pamir. The museum is located at Bokhtar street 23, in Dushanbe.

Yamchun is a tajik village 90 km upper than Ishkashim village and 2 km lower than Vrang village. It stand on the shore of the Panj river and at the border of the Wakhan corridor, just in front of the Afghan Yamit village. The village was built at the foot of the fortress with the same name and the hot springs of Bibi Fatima Zahro. The fortress was built from the 3rd century BC, but human sign in this region are older. 

Iskanderkul named after Alexander the Great lake is the biggest lake of Fan Mountains situated at the altitude of 2195 and its surface is 3,4 km2.

Kulob Airport is an airport serving the city of Kulob and its region, in Tajikistan.

Companies and destinations:

Orenburg Airlines: Moscow-Domodedovo
Tajik Air | : Dushanbe, Khudzhand, Moscow-Domodedovo
Ural Airlines: Moscow-Domodedovo, Yekaterinburg

Shohmansur - the central market of Dushanbe. The market really east, noisy, cramped, interesting and varied. Here you can buy anything from food to the national dress.

The small Ak-Balyk lake, about ten km from the village of Alichur is at an altitude of 3896 meters on the edge of the "highway" M-41 and the Gunt river. In the Kyrgyz language, "Ak" means "white" and "Balyk" means "fish". Local shepherds say that we have never been able to measure the depth of this lake.

Alauddin consist in four small lakes, Chapdara (2 lakes) llying at an altitude of 2784 m, are considered as most beautiful lakes of Fan mountains. Alaudin lakes are situated at 3512 m. at the top of the gorge (2 lakes), also called Mutne which means from the Russian language "troubled's lake".