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 clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Sarband reservoir

44 Springs swimming area

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

A warm day in February

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Sarband reservoir boating

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

The road crosses the river numerous times

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

Sarband train bridge

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

Vakhsh river rocks

Sari Khosor

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

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

Sarband reservoir walk

Potato field, Sari Khosor

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

February blossoms in the Red Hills

The Sarband Grass Beach

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

Sarband train bridge view

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

All quiet at the swimming hole

The Nurek reservoir

Sarband reservoir

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

The Red Hills

Red Hills climbing

Sarband motorboating

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

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

A dead tree at 44 Springs

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

Sarband train bridge

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

A wheat field ready for harvest

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

Sarband reservoir

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

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