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A little slide show of the Pamir and Wakhan Valley.
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On the down side of the summit the road gets pretty bad. The washboard is horrible and bone shattering. It was so bad Trevor’s mirror actually broke off while he was riding.
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Does that count as a breakdown for the Honda? |
Damn Honda Quality it will probably be the only one. They were cheap Chinese after market mirrors!!
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Here you stop at passport control and the agent asks for your passport and registration. Very friendly and professional. After this you go 200 m to customs. Here they want the same info and 10$ for customs clearance. Krygyzstan , Kazakstan, and Russia are a customs zone and we are now cleared for all 3 and we have 2 months.
The road from the border is paved is a bit pot holed and we have just 25 km to Sary-Tash. Some kids had blocked the road with donkeys and clearly wanted a toll to pass, but there were one donkey short of a barricade.
 Tajikistan Sary-Tash-18 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_ by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We rolled into the “town” at about 5 and there arrived to the one hotel in the GPS.
 Kyrgy_-10 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_-9 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_-8 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
Hotel is a loose term it is one room with a dais and you supply your own bedding. There is an outhouse and no shower. While Trevor was inside checking it out a couple walked up and asked if he was travelling with Dan and Sara! This is Graham and Katrina Perkins who we have been following as they came west across Asia on their Africa twin. There had seen the bikes come into town from their hostel nearby.
 Tajikistan Sary-Tash-19 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We were not keen on either of these 2 options. A guy rolled up in a car and said he was a tour operator and had a house for rent. We followed him out of town, across a cow field to a house with no running water, an outhouse and a single room again. Ah NO.
We then wound our way father thru the fields and the village back roads to the main highway where we had seen a restaurant and hotel. Very nice family. There had room with no beds, but they sleep on several layers of mats and gave us pillows and duvets. There is of course only outhouses, but they have running water. The owner is the chef and his wife the manager and she speaks English. She arranged for me to have a shower at a friends house about 150 m away. This was a hot steamy tiled room with a cement floor and a drain. There is a huge boiler at one side and a barrel of cold water to mix in for the best pour over shower ever! The price was right too. 15$ each for room, dinner, and breakfast. They also had wifi at least to check in after 4 days off line.
 Kyrgy_-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Kyrgy_-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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The total SPOT of the Pamir and Wakhan Valley route! The dots are 15 minute intervals!
 Screen Shot 2017-07-17 at 16.51.12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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