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:

The road crosses the river numerous times

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

The Red Hills

The Nurek reservoir

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

Sarband reservoir

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

Sarband motorboating

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

Sari Khosor

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

A warm day in February

Sarband reservoir walk

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

February blossoms in the Red Hills

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

Potato field, Sari Khosor

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

Sarband train bridge

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

Sarband reservoir boating

All quiet at the swimming hole

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

Red Hills climbing

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

A wheat field ready for harvest

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

The Sarband Grass Beach

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

Sarband reservoir

Sarband train bridge

44 Springs swimming area

Sarband train bridge view

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

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

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

Sarband reservoir

Vakhsh river rocks

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

A dead tree at 44 Springs

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