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 first swim spot (in the lower Sari Khosor valley)

Cliffs all around near Balvjuvon

Potato field, Sari Khosor

Main channel at the 44 Springs

Mulberry cakes drying (food for donkeys in the winter)

A riverside cliff trail in Sari Khosor

The main Vakhsh diversion canal, in Sarband

Late evening in the Sari Khosor valley

Bathing in the Sari Khosor valley

Sarband train bridge over the Vakhsh

Ajina-Teppa Buddhist monastery ruins near Qurghonteppa

The Nurek reservoir

Sarband reservoir

Winter reeds on the Vakhsh

Khoja Mashad madrassa, near Shahrtuz

44 Springs swimming area

Sarband reservoir walk

Horseback riding in Sari Khosor Valley

Calm waters in the Sari Khosor Valley

Mulokoni waterfall, Sari Khosor valley

Flooded grass beach near Sarband

The river moves and swallows the shore, near Bustonkala

The Afghan border, near Panj-i Poyon

A canal house in Qurghonteppa

Ismoil Somoni monument, Qurghonteppa

Sarband train bridge view

A warm day in February

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Qala-i Mir ruins in Qubodiyon

Sarband motorboating

A Kamaz marshrutka in the Sari Khosor valley

Vakhsh river rocks

The Red Hills

Many old trees survive in Sari Khosor

Golovnaya dam at Sarband

Sarband train bridge

Crossing a smaller channel near the Qurghonteppa airport

Sarband reservoir

A Vakhsh River diversion canal in Qurghonteppa

Below the Mulokoni waterfall

All quiet at the swimming hole

The Sworde-Teppa camp stove

Red Hills climbing

Vakhsh River diversion canal near central Qurghonteppa

Sarband reservoir

Vakhsh River near Golovnaya Dam

The car gets a final bath in Baljuvon

The road crosses the river numerous times

February blossoms in the Red Hills

Sarband train bridge

An old hollow tree near Sari Khosor

The Sarband Grass Beach

A wheat field ready for harvest

Sarband reservoir boating

A clear day, looking upstream towards Sarband

A walk in the tall grass, Sari Khosor

A dead tree at 44 Springs

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

Front step swimming in Qurghonteppa

Vakhsh River near Qurghonteppa

Reeds near the Sarband Grass Beach

Sari Khosor

The Vakhsh: fast and blue

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