Today was not short of views. We started at Lake Karakul, a 52km anechoic lake that’s said to have formed in an impact crater. At just about 3600m above sea level it’s a pretty spectacular spot - and is why it’s part of the Tajik National Park which was also inducted to the UNESCO world heritage list in 2013. This evening we’ve found a delightfully out of the way spot in the mountains. But the real highlight was the middle of the day - the Ak Baital pass. At 4655m above sea level, it’s the highest part of the M41 Pamir Highway. #photography #overlandlife #tajikistan image

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Tajikistan is, so far, definitely barren. We drove about 90km and saw a grand total of… 6 vehicles. The mountains are epic and the landscape around it is like a desert with sparse, small shrubs and not much else.
Out here most of the ”roads” are only roads in the loosest sense! They maybe had tarmac are one stage but now not so much! We do do quite a lot of dirt tracks but overlanding is not all the off-road bashing people think it is.