^{Photo Credit: Dave Stamboulis}

For many, traveling the Pamir Highway is already an extreme adventure but if you want to take the even more “road less traveled,” get off the main highway and venture into the Bartang Valley.

Here, the green plains along the raging Bartang River are contrasted by the stark and barren walls of narrow rock canyons under jagged peaks.

One of the most remote and desolate stretches of Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, the Bartang Valley is known for its hospitable people, trekking, and beautiful villages.

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