Tajikistan’s rich cultural heritage, hospitality and abundance of mountain snow peaks, rivers, lakes and recreational opportunities contribute to the development of country’s tourism industry.
Tajikistan’s rich cultural heritage, hospitality and abundance of mountain snow peaks, rivers, lakes and recreational opportunities contribute to the development of country’s tourism industry.
Today, we told you about Tajikistan’s natural sights, which are associated with numbers.
Haft Kul (Seven Lakes) is a unique complex located at the foot of the Fan Mountains in Panjakent district of the northern Sughd province. Each of the lakes is a different color and named after body parts. The villages around the Seven Lakes are picturesque and the people are welcoming.
Chil Dukhtaron, translated as Forty Girls, is a mountain range, valley and wildlife reserve in Muminobod district, Khatlon province. The Chil Dukhtaron range consist of red and yellow pyramidal extending as many as 60 meters, which originated as a result of conglomerates erosion. These mountains have generated numerous legends. One of them tells how 40 women stopped the advance of Chenghis Khan’s Mongol army. The Chil Dukhtaron wildlife sanctuary was established in 1959, covering 14,600 hectares.
The Sacred Springs in Chiluchor Chashma, which is located in Shahritous district of the southern Khatlon province, seem totally out of place in a country that is welcoming but rocky and mountainous. A spring and mazor are located some 12 kilometers from the administrative center of Shahritous district in Khatlon province. In Tajik, Chiluchor Chashma means Forty-four Springs. It is reportedly comprised of five large and forty small water sources. Spring emerge in a channel that reaches a width of 13 meters. The channel hosts various type of fishes, mostly trout. Tajiks and other Central Asian peoples consider Chiluchor Chashma a pilgrimage site and often journey there. Pilgrims come to pray. Above Chiluchor Chashma there is a hill with a mausoleum at its summit, where according to legend, Kambar Bobo, who was allegedly head of the stables of Hazrati Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is buried.
Panjroud is an ancient village located in Zarafshon Valley, some 60 kilometers east of the Tajik northern city of Panjakent in Sughd province. The father of Persian poetry Abu Abdullah Jaffar ibn Muhammad al-Roudaki (born c. 859, Roudak, Khorasan—died 940/941), better known as Roudaki, and also known as “Adam of Poets” is buried in this village.
Roudaki composed poems in the modern Persian alphabet and is considered a founder of classical Persian literature. Roudaki is honored throughout the Persian-speaking world, but especially in Tajikistan where he is one of the great figures of the past.
The special project, Tajikistan Begins from You, is an online guide to our country, which contains useful information about internal tourism, contacts of tour operators, hotels, as well as lifehacks for novice tourists and interesting stories of our foreign authors, who have personally convinced of Tajiks’ hospitality and beauty of Tajikistan’s mountains and much more.
