Dushanbe is very typical of a large (capital) Central Asian city. It has wide tree-lined promenades, many public parks, fountains… and police on every corner ‘maintaining the peace’
Everything seems orderly (even the traffic).
This is more than we can say for the Uzbekistan embassy. Here chaos reigns. Locals push, shove and use every trick in [...]

The “Pamir Highway” is a stretch of road between Osh in Kyrgyzstan and Khorog in Tajikistan. It was built by the Russian military in the 1930’s and cuts through the majestic Pamir mountain range, with some peaks well over 7,000m. It’s a ‘highway’ only by name, with many sections nothing more than one lane dirt [...]