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Pamir Highway (M-ID: 2574) from €2,950.00 Dates and Duration (Days) on Request 10 Days +49 (0)40 468 992 48 Mo-Fr. 10:00h to 19.00h Pamir Highway (M-ID: 2574) https://www.motourismo.com/en/listings/2574-pamir-highway from €2,950.00 Dates and duration (days) On request 10 days Pamir Highway - one of the most beautiful and highest roads of the world Pamir Highway is one of those roads that make the hearts diversity of Central Asia. Furthermore, we will visit the of biking friends beat faster. Pamir Highway, shortly known market, try a real Uzbekan or Uigurian Pilaw/Plow and taste as M41, is the main artery of life in Kirgisistan. The road the delicious melons. was built between 1931 and 1934 for the Russian military. But its history dates back much longer to those times when Day 2 it was part of the Silk Road. Opinions about where it Osh - Sary Tash (ca. 185 km) originated (Afghanistan, Uzbekistan or Tajikistan) differ, but The day starts with breakfast in the hotel. When Kirgizians the highway ended exactly in the city of Osh in Kirgisistan. wish you a happy road trip, they say "ak zhol", which means Our journey starts in Osh, from where we will climb up to "white way". Today we'll ride on asphalt. On the mountain the Pamir Plateau, and in a circle return back to Osh. The pass Taldykb (3615 meters above sea level) you'll reach largest part of the road is above 4000 meters. Because of quite noticeable heights. Our goal for the day, Sary-Tash, is so many meters above sea level, Pamir Highway is ranked a village between the ridges of Pamir Highway. It is an among the highest mountain roads of the world. important point on the Pamir Trak, because it is the meeting point of four roads: to the warm and plain Osh, to the Highland of Murgab, to the Tadzhik Jirga Valley and Routing: Chinese Kashgar. In the afternoon, the traditional Kirgizian camping houses â€" yurts â€" appear at the horizon. This is Day 0 the last town and last possibility for shopping before we Departure reach the border to Tadzhikistan. Today you get on your airplane and depart for Osh in Kirgisistan. There are two possibilities to get there, either Day 3 via Moscow or via Bishkek. From Sary-Tash to Murghab (ca. 225 km) After breakfast, we ride to Tadzhikistan. Right after leaving Day 1 Sary-Tash, we'll have a chance to spot the Lenin Peak (7134 Arrival meters), if the weather plays along. We'll cross the Kyzyl We'll pick you up at the airport in Osh and take you to the Pass (4280 meters). After that, there are several 10 hotel. The rest of the day we will spend with a test ride, an kilometers of driving on an asphalt road up to the border info briefing and a tour of the city. Osh is the capital of with Kirgisistan and finally a 30 km ride across "no man's South Kirgisistan. Its population is more conservative than land". the one in Bishkek. You will recognize this conservative attitude in the way people dress, in their behavior and their The relaxedness of the border police and the manual belief. Beyond that, only a few restaurants offer alcoholic handling without computers and mobile nets asks for a beverages. You may visit the largest attraction of the town, little more patience and time. You feel as if being once "Suleiman Mountain". For Central Asian Muslims, it is a holy again in the 1970s. Having managed the border mountain, and it offers a breath-taking panorama view of procedures, we'll ride across the Pamir Plateau to a real the city. In Osh, you get a feeling for the true origins and the extreme, the Ak-Baital-Pass (4655 meters above sea level). 23.09.2021 Pamir Highway - MOTOURISMO -- 1 The asphalt gets less and we'll find ourselves on a Today our breakfast is provided by a local family. Then the macadam road with inaccessibilities and all that nature has journey will go on. Today's target if the Autonomous Region to offer. Being above 4000 meters, you might experience Badakhshan with its capital Khorog. The road will lead us some oxygen problems. Be prepared, that you might feel along many villages and apricot plantations. bad or very bad, until your bodies get used to the extreme height. Here some information about the city: By the end of the day, we will have reached the next Khogor is the capital of Pamir, an island of civilization with overnight stop. Murghab, second largest city of 30.000 inhabitants, located 2200 meters above sea level. Tadzhikistan, is in the mountains of the Eastern Pamir Main attraction is the botanic Alps garden. You'll find a above 3612 meters. This is one of the most distant regions street called Lenina, a nostalgic reminder of the Soviet of Tadzhikistan, nearl 1000 kilometers away from area. In Khogor, the two mountain rivers Panj and Gunt flow Duzhanbe. Here you'll find the famous Lenina Street with its together. There are government offices, the seat of the administration buildings, former Soviet military barracks, Tadzhik president, a university, banks and restaurants. oldtimer vehicles made in Russia, monuments for the Kirgizian and Tadzhik soldiers who fell in the Second World After we'll have checked-in and got a little fresh, we'll go to War, a bazar and many happy and carefree children. The explore this city. local climate is extreme â€" up to minus 50 degrees in winter and 40 degrees plus in summer. Also during Day 7 summer, weather is dominated by extremes; during the day From Khorog to Savnob (Bartang valley) (ca. 185 km) it is very hot, but in the night a strong cold wind comes After breakfast, we'll leave civilization and move on in the down to the valley. It swirls up the smoke of many dozen direction of Bartang Valley. The beginning of the road will wood ovens, and as a consequence, the air is filled with the be easy, but the conditions will get worse and worse. As a pleasant Pamir aroma. consequence of flooding and landslide, we'll have to pass some difficult sections, but we hope that we'll be spared Day 4 from that. If the road is blocked, we'll look for possibilities From Murghab to Langar (Wakhan/Panj valley) (ca. 225 to drive around the blocked segments. After the strains of km) this day, we'll be rewarded by the visit of one of the most After breakfast, we continue our tip across the Pamir beautiful villages during our tour. The village Savnob is Plateau into the Panj-Valley along the border to located at the edges of a deep canyon, surrounded by Afghanistan. This is one of the wildest and loneliest parts mighty mountains with snow-covered tops. Green blooming of our adventure. The most remote regions of Tadzhikistan gardens in the village offer a pleasant contrast with the and Afghanistan meet here. You'll get to see slowly moving otherwise rough mountain landscape. The best view of the caravans on the way to the other side of the border. Such village you'll have from a creek nearby, which the village events seem like a mirage, like messengers of the long inhabitants use as their natural bathroom. gone time of the great Silk Road. A rocky, stony road with several river crossings is waiting for us. In the afternoon, Day 8 we go down from 4.000 to 2.900 meters in the Panj-Valley. From Savnob to Karakul (Bartang valley) (ca. 180 km) It will get warmer, and finally we'll reach the village of Breakfast in the guesthouse, then back on the bikes and off Langar. As soon as we've arrived, we'll have time for we go! Ahead of us is the most difficult day of the tour. The leisure. Nearby, there are old petroglyphs (cave paintings) more we proceed, the worse and more difficult the road to look at. conditions will become. But as a reward, we get to see the Bartang Valley with all its splendor and picturesque views. Day 5 In the afternoon, we'll cross the Bartang Valley and return to From Langar to Ishkashim (through the Wakhan/Panj the Pamir Plateau. Here we have to expect very rough road valley) (ca. 135 km) conditions. In the evening, we'll reach the beautiful Karakul Breakfast, and back on the bikes. We'll experience the most Lake. Its origins date back to a meteorite impact, just like picturesque part of the Panj Valley, the so-called Vakhan Lake Kaali in Saaremaa, but Lake Karakul is much larger. corridor. This small strip of land runs along the valleys and There are only a few creatures in the lake. The only fish the rivers Panj, Pamir and Wakhan and the Afghan border. breed is unfortunately inedible. Today we'll have sufficient Compared to the rest of the country, the soil here is very oxygen during the night, but unfortunately under the rough fertile. We'll ride through traditional central Asian villages, climatic conditions of the Pamir Plateau. we'll see watered fields, rows of poplars, and traditional houses at the mountain slopes. Another striking symbol of Day 9 the Wakhan Valley is the Yachmun bastion. This bastion From Karakul to Osh (ca. 280 km) was built in the 3rd century before Christ as a protection We'll have to get out of bed early, because there is a long against military attacks and to control the important trade ride ahead of us.
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