You can explore the southern Khatlon Province on Panoramio, a site that tags photos to exact location on Google Maps. You can also view plenty of photos on 500px and on Flickr that are tagged with Khatlon as a location (note: some of the photos on the above websites are mislabeled or placed in the wrong location).

You can also follow us or view our photographs on Instagram and Flickr.

This is a selection of southern Tajikistan photos taken by our volunteers:

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

A “wishing cliff”: people throw 3 rocks and try to make them stay in the hole

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

The Sarband Grass Beach

Sarband train bridge

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

Sarband reservoir

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

A dead tree at 44 Springs

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Potato field, Sari Khosor

Sarband reservoir boating

A warm day in February

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

Red Hills climbing

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

The Red Hills

The first swim spot (in the lower Sari Khosor valley)

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

Sarband train bridge

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

44 Springs swimming area

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

The Nurek reservoir

Sarband reservoir

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

All quiet at the swimming hole

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

February blossoms in the Red Hills

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

Sarband reservoir

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Vakhsh river rocks

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

Sari Khosor

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

The road crosses the river numerous times

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

Sarband reservoir walk

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

Sarband motorboating

Sarband train bridge view

A wheat field ready for harvest

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

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