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:

Sarband reservoir

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

Vakhsh river rocks

The Red Hills

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

Sarband reservoir boating

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

A wheat field ready for harvest

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Sarband reservoir

Sarband motorboating

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

All quiet at the swimming hole

Sarband train bridge

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

February blossoms in the Red Hills

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

Sarband reservoir walk

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

Sari Khosor

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

Sarband train bridge view

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

The road crosses the river numerous times

The Sarband Grass Beach

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

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

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

Potato field, Sari Khosor

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

A warm day in February

The Nurek reservoir

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

Red Hills climbing

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

A dead tree at 44 Springs

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Sarband train bridge

44 Springs swimming area

Sarband reservoir

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

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