Recalling a Trip through Tajikistan

 

A French woman cycling on the Pamir Highway - 

she was using German tyres (I've asked her 

because of the rough gravel road)

Yesterday I started writing about Ladakh, but now I want to write on Tajikistan again. On this trip to Ladakh I had been in a group together with a Suisse couple, who had been in Tajikistan, too. In fact they’ve done the trip with the same organization as me, only earlier. There had been some safety issues I didn’t encounter. He had been surrounded by fierce frontier soldiers waving guns at him. In 2016 I thought the frontier being safe, but this may have been a wrong interpretation of silence. After my trip four cyclists had been killed [1] and the tourist organization in Germany thought not continuing trips to Tajikistan being the wiser option.

Late in 2016 I’ve written: “It isn't a risk or adventure concerning security.” [2] Maybe I would write otherwise now. The region, where the killings occurred, were part of our itinerary.

The culminating point has been the Pamir Highway [3].

Here I’ve written something on how a vegetarian fares in Tajikistan [4].

Also I’ve written about the teapots on graves at the border to Afghanistan [5]. 

So expect more in the days to come.

Links:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_attack_against_cyclists_in_Tajikistan

[2] https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2016/10/driving-in-tajikistan-along-border-to.html

[3] https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-trip-through-pamir-mountains.html

[4] https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2016/11/a-vegetarian-in-tajikistan.html

[5] https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-graveyard-next-to-afghan-border.html

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