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The Wakhan Valley – A Stone’s Throw from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, August 2018
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My latest journey has taken a detour from the Pamir Highway into the Wakhan Valley region. Although I won’t bore you with too much geopolitical history, in the 1800s as the Soviet empire was pressing south and the British were …