Tajikistan
Every country is singular, but within Central Asia Tajikistan is even more singular.
Tajikistan is landlocked between China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Among its Central Asian neighbours Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan where a Turco-Mongol heritage and Turkic language are predominant, Tajikistan stands out as ethnically and linguistically Persian.
During my last travel to Central Asia, I visited first Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and then went to Uzbekistan.
From the very moment I arrived in Dushanbe, I felt a sharp difference in a way that I still have a hard time putting in words.
In the Eurasian mosaic, gradient and sharp transitions coexist.
From Dushanbe, within a 450 km radius and whatever the direction, you enter different worlds that seem...
We tend to forget that Buddhism had a significant presence in Central Asia and is part of the complex...
Close to Dushanbe, and nested in a fertile valley surrounded by mountain peaks, the Hisor fortress was...
At the crossroads of Central Asia, many civilisations have moulded Tajikistan. Persian empires of the...
