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:

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

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

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

A wheat field ready for harvest

Sarband reservoir boating

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

Sarband reservoir

Sarband motorboating

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

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

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

44 Springs swimming area

Sarband train bridge

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

The Red Hills

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

A dead tree at 44 Springs

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

Sarband train bridge

A warm day in February

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

February blossoms in the Red Hills

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

Sarband reservoir

Potato field, Sari Khosor

Sari Khosor

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

Sarband train bridge view

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

Sarband reservoir walk

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Red Hills climbing

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

The road crosses the river numerous times

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

The Sarband Grass Beach

The Nurek reservoir

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

Sarband reservoir

All quiet at the swimming hole

Vakhsh river rocks

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

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