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Khorog.  Khorog was founded on the place of two small villages, which existed before the revolution. Since 1925 Khorog is the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous oblast (GBAO). The city is located at the bottom of a deep gorge at the altitude of 2000 m above sea level, on the place of confluence of the rivers Pyanj, Gund and Shohdara, straight by the border with Afghanistan; the Pamirs motorway passes through the centre of the town. Due to its position in the deep canyon, the town is protected from strong winds and sharp temperature drops in winter times. Summer in Khorog is relatively warm and dry.  Located in a wonderful place, Khorog is the regional centre of control, trade, transport and education. This small town is proud by its educational institutions among which is the one of the branches of the University of Central Asia, Khorog State University and the Aga Khan Lyceum. 

Khorog – is a beautiful town with tall poplars and colourful Pamiri traditional houses on the outskirts. Nearby Khorog, on a hill there is the Pamirs botanical garden. This is the highest botanical garden at the territory of the former USSR. It also occupies second place in the world by its height above the sea level, on the first place is the botanical garden in Nepal. A collection of plants, trees and shrubs from all over the world can be seen here. Most of the main transportation communications to GBAO including the Pamirs highway pass through Khorog. An earth road passes through Vakhan and Alichur. Another road goes to east through the Shahdara valley to the peaks of Karl Marx and Engels. The population of the city s 30000 people (the Pamiri ethnical groups).  We invite you to a small, but cozy and an under development town, where people are known for their hospitality, preservation of their ancient culture and traditions; where music, poetical contemplation of the world and wise philosophical attitude to life dominate in the mentality and everyday life of a Pamiri man.

 

Sarez lake.  The lake is 55.8 km, the altitude of the lake 3263m, the maximum width of the lake 3.3 km, the maximum depth of the lake 500 m, the maximum amount of water in the lake is 16.074 km3, the incoming part of the balance 47.1 m3 / s = 1487 million m3 , expenses balance 47.7 m3 / s = 1505 million m3, maximum seasonal fluctuation "6 (18), in 1911goda 23ch.15 min.  Khorog felt a strong push.  In Sarez all jumped out of the tents, shouting and crying.  Two tents were filled up, four cracked.  From the west came the wild roar.  He mingled with the howling of falling avalanches.  Moon over Mardzhanaem beginning to fade.  In the morning it was all in the dust hanging in the air, and the ground continued to shake.  When the boys came up to where he was Usoy, village they saw.  Instead, the towering mountain of boulders. "  Describes eyewitness OE  Agahanyants (1989) So begins the story of Lake Sarez, which was formed by the collapse of a huge block of rock from the right side of the valley of the river Murghab after the earthquake.
      Earthquake swept a vast area of the Pamirs and northern Afghanistan.  Earthquake parameters are:
 • Time: 18 hours 41 minutes 14 seconds;
 • epicenter coordinates: latitude 38.2? Latitude, longitude 72.8?;
 • magnitude: M = 7.4 on the Richter scale;
 • intensity of tremors on the surface in the epicentral area of 9-10 ballov scale EMS - EMS - 98;
 • 70-75 km depth of the epicenter.

 

Yashikul lake. Lake formed by the dam, which blocked the river Alichur. The length of the dam of 4 km, the power of 100-110 meters. Water flows over the southern edge of the dam, and from here begins the Gunt River, which flows through the 200 km in the river Panj. On the obstruction is an old trail, next to which was discovered by geologists granite boulder with inscriptions in Arabic that tell us who in the old days paved the way here. At the mouth of the swampy terrain Alichur, many sedges.  It is the smallest, the eastern part Jashilkul. Bright green spot is allocated the river flows into the lake.  Near the mouth of Alichur is hot sulfuric water springs Issyk-Bulak. The water in it has four griffins along the foot of the granite massif, and reaches a temperature of 71 degrees Celsius. Source is surrounded by crumbling adobe buildings (possibly shrines or mausoleums), people here consider him a "saint."  Small clay building has a pool to collect water from a hot spring.

 

Bulunkul lake.  Lake Bulunkul much smaller than Jashilkul and connected with it a narrow channel.  Water in Bulunkul pres-tion, many aquatic plants can often see ducks, geese, floating on surface of the lake, and seagulls scurrying over it.  It is noteworthy that for the first time on this lake in the Pamir was organized fishing.  Between May and September-October, anglers snare at the neck flowing into the lake and rivers caught osman and Marina.

      Lake area Bulunkul known and that in winter the lowest temperature recorded in Central Asia - minus 63 degrees Celsius.The best time to visit the lake - July to September.  You can stay overnight in the village Bulunkul located near the eponymous lake, where there is a guest house.

 

Garm - Chashma. The deposits form a slime balls and lime incrustations - travertine hill, at the end of which there are a number of natural bowls - pools of different sizes, with a water mirror of 0.5 to 20 square meters.  m and a depth of half a meter.  They are filled with hot water turquoise, which includes iron, aluminum, magnesium, strontium, fluorine, and other elements.  The water also contains large amounts of hydrogen sulfide (170 mg per liter), silicic acid (135 mg per liter) and carbon dioxide (381 mg per liter).  Water temperature at the surface of griffins about plus 62 degrees Celsius.  Water temperature in the "pool" ranges from plus 38 to plus 50 degrees Celsius, depending on the proximity of the source.  The outer walls of the reservoir produces charming impression, thanks to him glued to white stalactites, painted in a variety of colors covering their colorful algae.  The bottom of the largest "pool" of the deferred thin, soft sediment of calcium carbonate mixed with sulfur. ​In this area there are carbonated mineral springs with a constant temperature of 14 degrees Celsius, the water of which the local population is used as a dining room. Valuable factor in the location of the resort is also the source of its favorable climate, which in combination with balneotherapy gives good results in curing some diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous system, musculoskeletal system, as well as skin and gynecological diseases. In 1957, the exit site of mineral water baths was built Garm-Chashma, which has been regularly rebuilt and reconstructed.