Jet-setting in the Taj

From Dushanbe, we hopped a flight to Khorog, our jumping off point for trekking in the Pamir Mountains. We bought tickets to fly out on a Sunday, only to show up at the appointed time to be told the flight was cancelled because we were the only ones who had purchased tickets on the flight. So this, coupled with our previous dealings with the airline, made us a bit cautious about the, shall we say, consistancy of Taj Air's domestic flights, this route in particular because it requires the pilot to fly dangerously close to the rocky Pamir peaks as he navigates the narrow mountain passes. But we were comforted by LP's sidebar that the Dushanbe-Khorog flight had only gone down once in recent memory, and then only because of an errant missle from Afghanistan. No worries indeed! After an exhilerating 45 minute flight in a Russian-made Yak airliner, we touched down in Khorog, a pleasant mountain city nestled right againt the Afghan border.

Ridin' dirty in the Yak.

The Pamirs in your face!
The passanger entrance also doubles as luggage hold.

From the tarmac you can hop a fence into Afghanistan. How edgy!
Welcome to Khorog.