AI generatedMurghab
Tajikistan · Gorno-Badakhshan · 3650 m
Short description of Murghab
Murghab is the highest town in the country, a scatter of low houses on a treeless plateau where the air is thin and the winters are severe enough to empty the place. It exists because the road needs a halt, and travellers stop here for fuel, a bed and the arrangements that get them further east. Its bazaar is a row of shipping containers set out on the gravel, which is exactly as bleak and as useful as it sounds. Kyrgyz herders keep yaks on the surrounding valleys. Cash matters here because nothing electronic works reliably.
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Best time to visit: July – August
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All highlights and sightsBeta
- The container bazaar
- Ak-Baital pass, the highest on the road(Day trip)
- Views over the Murghab river and the plateau
- Kyrgyz yurt camps (June - September)
- Yak herds and Bactrian camels on the plateau
- Shakhty cave paintings in the Kurteskei valley(Day trip)
- Pshart and Madiyan valleys (June - September)(Day trip)
- Rangkul and Shorkul lakes (June - September)(Day trip)
- Stargazing from the plateau