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:

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

44 Springs swimming area

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

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

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

A warm day in February

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

Potato field, Sari Khosor

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

All quiet at the swimming hole

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

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

Sarband reservoir boating

The Red Hills

Sarband motorboating

A dead tree at 44 Springs

The Nurek reservoir

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

Sarband reservoir walk

The Sarband Grass Beach

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

Sarband train bridge

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

A wheat field ready for harvest

Sarband reservoir

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

Sari Khosor

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

The road crosses the river numerous times

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Red Hills climbing

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

Sarband train bridge

Sarband train bridge view

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Vakhsh river rocks

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

Sarband reservoir

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Sarband reservoir

February blossoms in the Red Hills

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

Main channel at the 44 Springs

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