Mountain Badakhshan

Amazingly beautiful landscape of high-mountain valleys, surrounding by peaks with eternal snow, splendid high-mountain lakes and impetuous rivers, unusual architecture of mountain settlements, centuries-old traditions and customs, saved by local inhabitants – all these things are deserved reward for traveler succeeded in reaching to these places. The most high-mountain botanical garden in the world is located in administrative centre of the Mountain Badakhshan – Khorog - at a height of 2300 meters.

In GBAO tourists can enjoy picturesque mountain landscapes of mountain ranges (Vonchskiy, Rushanskiy, Shokhdaryinskiy, Zulumart, Zaalayskiy) and also afghan Gindukush Mountain and Chinese Kun-Lun Mountains with summits Patkhor Peak (6093 m), Mayakovskiy Peak (6095 m), K.Marks Peak (6723 m), Soviet officers Peak (6233 m), Lenin Peak (7134 m), Muztag-Ata Peak (7556 m) and many other nice summits, numerous high mountain lakes (Karakul, Bulunkul, Zoroshkul, Turumtykul, Sarez, Yashilkul, Zorkul, Rongkul, hundreds other more small lakes); intermontane valleys Alichurskaya, Vakhanskaya, Shokhdaryinskaya, Vonchskaya with numerous mountain settlements, where you can watch real life of local inhabitants and their traditions; ruins of ancient fortress (Kaakhka, Yamchun, Ratm and etc.); numerous mazars and sanctuaries.