1. Via Dushanbe

a) Weekly Tajik Air flight Munich-Istanbul-Dushanbe: this flight is scheduled as follows:

Munich-Dushanbe:
Saturday – departure 18h00, arrival Dushanbe 05h35 Sunday

Dushanbe-Munich:
Saturday departure 10h00 arrival Munich 16h00

Tickets can be booked by telephone or e-mail at the Tajik Air office in Munich:

Mr. Firuz Ishankulov
Postfach 241308
D-85335 Muenchen-Flughafen
Tel: (49 89) 975 94 210
Fax: (49 89) 975 94 216
E-mail: gartjk@i-dial.de

and at the Tajik Air office in Dushanbe.

b) Weekly Tajik Air Flight Istanbul (Chorlu) – Dushanbe: this flight is scheduled as follows: Istambul- Dushanbe – Saturday departure 23-50 PM and arrival Sunday 05.35 AM

Mr.
Postfach 241308
D-85335 Istanbul
Tel:
Fax:
E-mail:

c) Via Moscow:
Tajik Air flies daily Moscow-Dushanbe (twice daily from 20.6 to 15.8)
Moscow (Domodedovo Airport) - Dushanbe departure 13h30 / arrival Dushanbe 18h30
Dushanbe-Moscow (Domodedovo Airport) departure 8h00 / arrival Moscow 11h20

Tickets can only be bought in Moscow (at the Tajik Air counter at Domodedovo) or in Dushanbe (at the Tajik Air office at the airport).

The timing of the Moscow-Dushanbe flight means that, on the way to Dushanbe, travellers from Europe must spend a night in Moscow, which can be expensive and for which a Russian visa is required (also expensive). The timing of the return flight, however, makes it possible to connect the same day with flights to most European destinations (NB only Swiss to http: //www.swiss.com/ flies from Domodedovo, for other Western airlines a transfer to Sheremetevo is necessary.)

d) Via Almaty:
e) Via Bishkek:

The TajikAir timetable can be found at http: //www.tajikistan-airlines.com. Tajik Air also flies to Dushanbe from: Teheran, Delhi, Sharjah, and Mashad.

Once in Dushanbe, unless they have been able to obtain a mention of Gorno-Badakhshan on their visa, travellers must spend up to three days obtaining a special stamp in their passport authorizing them to TRAVEL to Gorno-Badakhshan. (N.B. the official Tajik tourist agency is trying to simplify this procedure – see below.)

From Dushanbe, TRAVEL to Gorno-Badakhshan is either by air to Khorog or by road (approximately 20 hours in a western four-wheel drive vehicle, longer in a minibus). Subject to the provisos listed below, there are one or more flights every day to and from Khorog.
Flights to Khorog are in a small plane that only departs Dushanbe if there is no cloud cover on the mountains on the way into Khorog and if Tajik Air determines that there are sufficient passengers to make the flight economical. All flights originate in Dushanbe, which means that there is only a flight Khorog-Dushanbe if the flight Dushanbe-Khorog has taken place. In the absence of flights, arrangements must be made for travelby car or minibus.

In Dushanbe there are a few acceptable hotels: information can be obtained from several websites (search on Dushanbe and hotels)

There is have one hotel of acceptable standard in Khorog: the Serena, run by the Aga Khan Development Network – room rate varies between $60 and $100 depending on the season and number in the group, and also in guest hause with the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP).

Through Kyrgyzstan
Osh, the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan, is situated in the South of the country. A paved road runs South from Osh to the last Kyrgyz checkpoint, Sari Tash (190km, 4 hours by private vehicle). From there a partially paved road leads across the Pamir plateau to Khorog (540km, 12 hours – several passes at altitudes higher than 4,000m). The various checkposts will not allow travellers to pass unless their Tajik visas mention specifically the destination of Gorno-Badakhshan.

A weekly Altyn Air flight connects Osh and Dushanbe, Fridays at 11h45 Osh-Dushanbe, 14h00 Dushanbe-Osh
(see http: //www.azTRAVEL.info)
N.B. Osh airport code = OSS, Dushanbe = DYU.

3) Via Tashkent UZBEKISTAN You can contact with Tajik branch office: Tashkent, Farkhadskaya str.20-8;
tel/fax: (+998 712) 50-87-37;
representative: Ilmira Kazakova;
The Tajik branch office help to your concerning any questions: organize Tajik visa and visa support, meeting and see off in Airports in Tashkent and in Khujand, transfer to Khujand and back, reservation hotels in Tashkent and in Khujand, reservation and booking airtickets Khujand – Dushanbe and back.
transiting via Tashkent requires travelling by road to Khujand in Northern Tajikistan and then flying with Tajik Air to Dushanbe or continuing by road.

TOUR OPERATORS

Use your web browser to find existing tours – for general information begin with the search terms Tajikistan and tours – refine your search with the one or more specific locations, e.g. Pamir, Somoni, Pik Lenin, Sarez, Bartang, Zorkul. The official TRAVEL agency in Tajikistan Pamir TRAVEL, and tour company “Sayoh”, is very friendly and Mr. Latipov, the manager, is trying hard to remove many of the bureaucratic obstacles to tourism. Unfortunately, its website (http://travel-pamir.com) offers useful information on TRAVEL along Tajikistan and also in Gorno-Badakhshan PAMIRS:

For trekking, jeep tours, climbing, mountaineering, rafting, city tours alon the Great Silk Road and etc,
contact with Sadoullo Khasanov by following addresses:

Head office in Tajikistan: Dushanbe Tel: (+992 372) 24-09-06; 24-52-91;

Branch office in Khujand: tel: (+992 3422) 4-30-20; 4-24-19;

Branch office in Penjikent: tel/fax: (+992 3475) 5-31-34; tel: 5-50-88;

Branch in Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Farkhadskaya str. 20-8;
Tel/fax: (+998 712) 50-87-37; mobile: (+998 71)187-93-21;

E-mail: sadoullo@mail.ru
E-mail: sayoh@mail.ru
E-mail: khilmira@mail.ru
E-mail: adventure@pamir-travel.com
Web-site: www.travel-pamir.com

Central Asia Tourism Corporation in Almaty, Kazakhstan, may also be able to help –
(see www.CENTRALasiatourism.com)