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Silkroad travels: Pamir

This is NOT our reception committee in Murghab but a group of businessmen in front of a warehouse: modern Silkroad business going on! The smiling men are Kyrgyz, wearing the traditional kalpak.

Our first contact in Murghab (3605 m alt.) was with the woman of the foreigner's police, OVIR (by the way, it's on "Lenina ulitsa"). First she let us wait for over an hour, then she asked three hundred dollars for each stamp in our passports. We had to raise hell and to forcefully take our passports back from the screaming "Dragon with the Golden Teeth" as we came to name the lady. We finally got away with paying a small fee for a stamp. The Soviet Union has left a sulfurous trail in Tajikistan!