or De Wakhan Dehleez in Pashto – in the Pamir Mountains. Geographically this thin slice of land in the Badakhshan province (Afghanistan) is about 350 km long and 16 to 64 km wide. Wakhan or ...

Pamir mountains, Alay valley. The Trekking Kyrgyzstan’s Alay Mountains tour is for the intrepid mountaineers who wants to see a part of the world rarely visited by tourists The Trekking ...

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk due to Soviet-era irrigation, sparking crises as Uzbekistan fights desertification ...

Some 17,000 people are working on the site which lies west of the capital Dushanbe, in the foothills of the Pamir Mountains. The site is already partially functioning but it is not known when ...

Unifrance, the French promotional film organization, celebrated rising stars at this year’s Rendez-Vous in Paris.

After previous docs set in the Amazon and Antarctica, Millet’s latest film will cast its lens on the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. And in the longer term, Millet will mine the depths of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered two incredible 1,324-year-old forgotten cities abandoned on the ancient Silk Road. Founded in early mediaeval times in southeastern Uzbekistan, Archaeologists say ...

From landlocked and mountainous Kyrgyzstan to miniscule Andorra, to the Pacific island country of Papua New Guinea, we take a ...

Airkir Duliki, China's first ethnic Tajik train conductor, was born and raised amidst the snow-capped mountains and grasslands in a village of Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County on the Pamir Plateau.