Murgab
Murgab (Murgob) – the highest mountain village of the former USSR and modern Tajikistan, the district center of the eponymous district of Gorniy Badakhshan, it is located in the mountains of the Eastern Pamir at an altitude of 3600 meters above sea level.
Murgab is located in an intermountain valley at the confluence of the Murgab and the Ak Baytal rivers on the legendary Pamir highway. The distance to the nearest major cities is 315 km from Khorog, the capital of Gorniy Badakhshan, and 415 km to Osh – the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan.
The village was founded in 1893 during the GREAT GAME (the cold war between Russia and the Great Britain for dominance in the region) as an Outpost of the Russian Imperial army on the way to Afghan and Chinese borders.
About 6 thousand people live in this village, mostly Tajik Pamirs and Eastern Kyrgyzs. The climate is very harsh, extreme, in winter temperatures fall below -40 Celsium degrees, and in summer they can reach +40 Celsium degrees.
There are no significant tourist attractions in the village, but Murghab is located at a strategic point about half the way from Khorog to Osh and tourists are sure to spend the night here. In the village, you can walk along the Central Lenin street, visit the sparse local Bazaar, take photos at the monument to Lenin and the monument to those who died during the 2nd world war, the local mosque.
The village has a school, a health center, a small hydroelectric power station, a border guard, several guest houses, a poor hotel, but there are banks where you can freely exchange currency.
Murghab is an important border customs post with China, through which thousands of loaded trucks travel from China along the Karakorum highway, and then through the Kulma pass to Tajikistan.
From Murghab, tourists can make day trips to the Madian gorge, to the Rangkul lake, to see rock paints of primitive man in the village of Shakhty.
Murgab (Murgob) – the highest mountain village of the former USSR and modern Tajikistan, the district center of the eponymous district of Gorniy Badakhshan, it is located in the mountains of the Eastern Pamir at an altitude of 3600 meters above sea level.
Murgab is located in an intermountain valley at the confluence of the Murgab and the Ak Baytal rivers on the legendary Pamir highway. The distance to the nearest major cities is 315 km from Khorog, the capital of Gorniy Badakhshan, and 415 km to Osh – the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan.
The village was founded in 1893 during the GREAT GAME (the cold war between Russia and the Great Britain for dominance in the region) as an Outpost of the Russian Imperial army on the way to Afghan and Chinese borders.
About 6 thousand people live in this village, mostly Tajik Pamirs and Eastern Kyrgyzs. The climate is very harsh, extreme, in winter temperatures fall below -40 Celsium degrees, and in summer they can reach +40 Celsium degrees.
There are no significant tourist attractions in the village, but Murghab is located at a strategic point about half the way from Khorog to Osh and tourists are sure to spend the night here. In the village, you can walk along the Central Lenin street, visit the sparse local Bazaar, take photos at the monument to Lenin and the monument to those who died during the 2nd world war, the local mosque.
The village has a school, a health center, a small hydroelectric power station, a border guard, several guest houses, a poor hotel, but there are banks where you can freely exchange currency.
Murghab is an important border customs post with China, through which thousands of loaded trucks travel from China along the Karakorum highway, and then through the Kulma pass to Tajikistan.
From Murghab, tourists can make day trips to the Madian gorge, to the Rangkul lake, to see rock paints of primitive man in the village of Shakhty.
