Expedition
Pamir Highway 2022
The high road through Badakhshan: fortresses, Wakhani villages and the roof of the world
Pamir · Tajikistan · Badakhshan · Summer 2022 · Small group · Completed
About this journey
In summer 2022 we followed the Pamir Highway through Gorno-Badakhshan and the Wakhan valley: mountain villages, irrigated orchards and highland meadows beneath some of the highest ranges in Asia.
Fortresses, communal and sacred music, shared meals and conversations about local culinary, healing and religious traditions opened the Pamir as a lived crossroads rather than a remote backdrop.
What we actually do
- ·Wakhani villages and irrigated settlements along the Panj
- ·Hilltop fortresses and the routes linking Badakhshan across the high valleys
- ·Pamiri foodways, household hospitality and local healing traditions
- ·Ismaili religious life and musical traditions in the eastern Pamir
From the field
Swipe or drag
Practical
- Where
- Pamir · Tajikistan · Badakhshan
- When
- Summer 2022
- Group
- Small group
- Languages
- English · Hebrew
Read first
Travel Journal
The Jewels of Badakhshan
Ismaili Islam, four-layered ceilings and dying luthiers in the river valleys of the Pamirs.
Essay
“Wakhan, where the people worship Mahomet and speak a strange tongue”
Tracing the high-altitude history of the Wakhan Corridor, where Scythian roots, Ismaili mysticism, and the ghosts of the Great Game converge.
Essay
Light and Blood
It is hard to say exactly when gemstones first cast their spell over the human heart, or when we first learned to recognize that fine, shimmering line between transparency and color.
Completed
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The 2022 expedition has concluded. Write if you are interested in a future Pamir departure or a small-group journey shaped around landscape, history and living traditions.