FYEAH Tajikistan

Tajik eagle dance. Learn more about the dance here.

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:02:52 -0400

Tajik eagle dance. Learn more about the dance here.

mountainish: Tajikistan (by Eifeelgood)

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:02:05 -0400

mountainish:

Tajikistan (by Eifeelgood)

takhminatjk: A old Man and His Bear Dushanbe celebrities,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:02:37 -0400

takhminatjk:

A old Man and His Bear

Dushanbe celebrities, Talabsho Sheikhov and his bear Maria wander Tajikistan’s capital earning money by charging for photos. Sheikhov, 80, says he found Mariya, an orphan, 22 years ago in the Pamir Mountains and raised her with a bottle, sometimes offering her human milk. Today she eats Snickers and shashlik (grilled meat) and, while sometimes a little frightened by the crowds of onlookers, appears to have a special relationship with Sheikhov.

Brojon

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:02:15 -0400

bjornbjornbjorn:

today on facebook I witnessed a Tajik former exchange student to the US address his friend in English as “brojon” attatching the Persian affectionate suffix -jon to “bro”, I found it amusing. It’s too perfect, I would use that if brojononam would understand what I meant.

Ishkashim market, Tajik-Afghan border. The market stretches...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:02:32 -0400

Ishkashim market, Tajik-Afghan border. The market stretches from the Afghan side of Iskashim to the Tajik side of Iskashim, where tourists and traders gather.

“The market really was a highlight of the trip for me. The liveliness, the setting, the sounds, the colours, the clothes worn by the salespeople… they all made it a wonderfully memorable place”.

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Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:02 -0400

Fann mountains,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:48 -0400

Fann mountains, Tajikistan.

© T.Voekler on http://commons.wikimedia.org

stan-photos: A grandfather tells the mullah a very long story...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:05:24 -0400

stan-photos:

A grandfather tells the mullah a very long story at a religious wedding ceremony in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It was quite comical when a relative had to cut him short, reminding him that the mullah had come to conduct a marriage.

chingizhobbes: Mountains in Tajikistan.

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:02:12 -0400

chingizhobbes:

Mountains in Tajikistan.

Desert near Zumudg village, Tajikistan. © Matthieu Paley

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:03:10 -0400

Desert near Zumudg village, Tajikistan.

© Matthieu Paley

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:01:53 -0400

chingizhobbes: Young women in Gorno-Badakhshan region,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:03:00 -0400

chingizhobbes:

Young women in Gorno-Badakhshan region, Tajikistan, cover their faces from the elements. Gorno-Badakhshan is an autonomous region in the mountainous eastern part of Tajikistan inhabited by Pamiri people, who are often incorrectly referred to as ethnic Tajiks. In fact, Pamiris speak a number of different Eastern Iranian languages and are culturally distinct from their Persian speaking neighbors.

dispirits: Zeravshan gorge, Tajikistan. November...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:08:40 -0400

dispirits:

Zeravshan gorge, Tajikistan. November 2002. By Dmitry Beliakov.

westeastsouthnorth: Varzob, Tajikistan

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:06:30 -0400

westeastsouthnorth:

Varzob, Tajikistan

nprglobalhealth: Learning How to Cough Around Drug-Resistant...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:02:20 -0400

nprglobalhealth:

Learning How to Cough Around Drug-Resistant TB

Medecins Sans Frontiers counselor, Rano Safarova, tries to teach a group of children near Vose, Tajikistan, how to stop the spread of tuberculosis in their homes. Several members of this extended family have active TB including the 66-year-old grandmother, who’s the matriarch of the clan. The youngest victim in the family is a 4-year-old boy, who’s been left partially paralyzed and unable to speak from TB meningitis.

The grandmother refuses to accept that TB spreads through the air. She insists that the 4-year-old got it from swimming in a cold river.

“I have several concerns with this family,” says MSF nurse Tina Martin during a visit to the family’s cluster of mud-walled houses in southern Tajikistan. “Mostly I’m concerned with the level of education, the lack of understanding of what TB is and how it’s transmitted. This is highly concerning. This is a very close family. They live together, eat together, sleep together. And as TB is airborne transmission the family is reinfecting each other over and over.”

MSF is working to try to improve TB treatment for children in the Central Asian nation, particularly children infected with drug-resistant strains of the bacteria.

Photos: Jason Beaubien, NPR

yunitn: Garam Chashma hot spring, Tajikistan

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:00:53 -0400

yunitn:

Garam Chashma hot spring, Tajikistan

Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway: A Decaying Lifeline An...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:45:23 -0400

Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway: A Decaying Lifeline

An interesting slideshow and accompanying article

tajikilog: A one-off from last weekend.

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:39:59 -0400

tajikilog:

A one-off from last weekend.

qalbesaleem: A Kyrgyz boy near the border between Kyrgyzstan...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:02:40 -0400

qalbesaleem:

A Kyrgyz boy near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan by bolbolha on Flickr.

ytellioglu: the silk road by Retlaw Snellac on Flickr. the...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:01:20 -0400

ytellioglu:

the silk road by Retlaw Snellac on Flickr.

the silk road

On a high valley terrace on the banks of the Zeravshan River, 6km from the modern town of Penjikent, are the ruins of ancient Penjikent, a major Sogdian town founded in the 5th century and abandoned in the 8th century with the arrival of the Arabs. The ancient city has not been built upon since. The foundations of houses, a citadel with a couple of Zoroastrian temples, and the city bazaar are visible in the excavated ruins, but the best of the frescoes (some of them 15m long), sculptures, pottery and manuscripts have been carted off to Tashkent and St Petersburg. There is also a small museum chronicling the excavations; copies of frescoes are also there.