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:

All quiet at the swimming hole

The Sarband Grass Beach

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

Vakhsh river rocks

Sarband reservoir

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

A dead tree at 44 Springs

A warm day in February

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

Sarband train bridge view

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

A wheat field ready for harvest

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

Sarband train bridge

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

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

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

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

44 Springs swimming area

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

Sarband reservoir

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

Sarband train bridge

Sarband reservoir

The Nurek reservoir

February blossoms in the Red Hills

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

Sarband reservoir walk

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

Potato field, Sari Khosor

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

Sari Khosor

Sarband motorboating

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

Red Hills climbing

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

Sarband reservoir boating

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

The Red Hills

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

The road crosses the river numerous times

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

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