Ishkashim The village of Ishkashim is the largest settlement in the Wakhan, and one of the central tourist attractions as well. Every saturday, on a strip of land a couple kilometers outside of town, the normally quiet area between the …

Vrang Stupa High above the village of Vrang up a steep path through fields, rivers, and hills there stands… an artifact. A construction, believed to have been built in the 4th century, thought to be used in some of the …

Hitching in the Wakhan Counter-intuitively, hitching in the Wakhan is not as easy as might be expected. People are friendly, in general, but two main problems exist.   The first, and major problem, is that there just generally isn’t all …

Wakhan Portraits These little dudes, met somewhere outside the village of Yamg, were hard at work for the day. It was a brief encounter, a couple of smiles, a photo, and a laugh. Just another example, though, of the super …