Photos

Silk road travel:
Ishkashim (2540 m alt.) is the most important village between Khorog and Murghab. It may have 2'000 residents, there is a gymnasium and the only guest house, Hanis Mechmonchona, is presented in the picture and the road sign in the workshop area. The Panj valley opens up from here on upstream, bringing the high mountains into view. But most important, Ishkashim has a new bridge over the Panj river which leads to Sultan Ishkashim in Afghanistan. The bridge was paid by the Aga Khan foundation together with Germany. The local people cross the bridge to visit the market in Sultan Ishkashim and Afghans come over to the Tajik side to visit the mosque.
In "Map:View" I indicate the place of the guest house, the bridge had not been built at the time of the satellite photography. Note that the connection of Sultan Ishkashim to Faizabad (capital of the Badakshan province in Afghanistan) is difficult.