Road trip to Tajikistan

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JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-27 09:01:48 +0500 #21

If u plane to visit these areas in ur own ride from 15th November to 15th March, u may need chains for ur vehicles for the snowfall areas around KABUL and SALANG PASS.

pindi (pindi) 2010-10-27 15:03:16 +0500 #22

JavaidCh;2467634:

The roads condition in Afghanistan are quit good. Our route (Torkham, Jalalabad, Kabul, Salang pass, Pul Khumri, Kunduz, Bunder Sher Khan) lies in Northern Afghanistan which is quite safe. There are check posts all along this route and there is no difference traveling in day or night. In fact there are approx 5000 Pakistanis working in different capacities in Afghanistan. The Afghan economy is booming due to US Dollars inflow. One Afghani is equal to two Pak Rupees, and Tajikistan is having the same fate giving NATO the required facilities and building a new bridge in 2007 at Bunder Sher Khan, Tajikistan is the nearest central asian country to Pakistan. The country is worth visiting. The route is quite safe and no military along the route.
Tour details.
Faisalabad to Peshawer by DAEWOO. (5 hours 500 KM)
Peshawer to Torkham border by Taxi. (1H 30 Min 60 KM)
Torkhum Border to Bunder Sher Khan Border by Taxi (16 hours 650 KM)
Bunder Sher khan border to Dushanbe by taxi (3 hours 160 KM)
Border crossing at Torkham is very easy and smooth between 6.00 AM to 6.00 PM
But the border crossing at Bunder sher khan consume quite a time, but become smoth by rightful behaviour and some palm greasing (BAKHSHISH) of the officials. Urdu is very much understood in all of the Afghanistan. DARI spoken in northern Afghanistan and TAJIKI official language of Tajikistan are very similar to Farsi having very common urdu words. The only problem is that Tajiki is written in CYRILLIC/Russian alphabet.

Ist get a Tajik tourist visa of 15 days from Tajik embassy in Islamabad. (fee applies takes 3 working days, personal presence is on the will of visa officer)

2nd Get a one way Afghan transit visa of 3 days from Afghan embassy in Islamabad or Afghan visa office Peshawer. (free but takes 2 to 4 working days, personal presence is must)

Make sure to get a transit visa of Afghanistan for your back journey from Afghan embassy in Dushanbe. (free but takes 4 working days after personal presence)

I m sure u will enjoy this tour.

Thank you for sharing this information with us.

Porsche_Maker (Porsche_Maker) 2010-10-27 17:30:50 +0500 #23

@Javaid

Nice Trip but using person car is not good Idea for this Area as the Road Conditions can change abruplty as in Salang if you are not aware of the Tunnel Condition then its very difficult so does the other conditions of Afg.better hire some nice Car and travel by that.
Terrain is very Beautiful as can earn good money from the Toursim

imranbhatti (Imran Bhatti) 2010-10-29 09:57:51 +0500 #24

@JavaidCh

Ch sb very nice trip u have. Also Thanks for sharing such a nice info regarding Harely tours.

VCheng (VCheng) 2010-10-29 10:27:04 +0500 #25

Nice trip and good information in this thread! TFS.

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-29 19:33:14 +0500 #26

@imranbhatti, @vchang thanks for your compliments.
I have some videos of the trip also but I m not able to post it in this post, pls some one help me in this regard. Thanks

VCheng (VCheng) 2010-10-29 20:25:14 +0500 #27

I think you have to upload videos first to YouTube and then embed the links in your posts here.

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-29 20:56:46 +0500 #28

@VChang thanks for your advice. I shall try to do so.

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-29 21:42:09 +0500 #29

YouTube - Road Journey SALANG PASS Afghanistan 1
Pls check this video of my journey:)

//youtu.be/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2mI4zf5D1A

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-29 22:54:43 +0500 #30

YouTube - SALANG PASS video 2
Pls watch my another video about passing salang pass.

//youtu.be/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADq3GS-EhM

Skill (Skill) 2010-10-30 08:40:05 +0500 #31

interesting thread.

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-30 11:15:56 +0500 #32

YouTube - Nigora Holova

//youtu.be/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucn5_UdiHr4

Raheel999 (Raheel999) 2010-10-30 11:26:06 +0500 #33

Very nice trip n informative also

HanifBhatti (Hanif Bhatti) 2010-10-30 11:26:23 +0500 #34

Nice vdos, hope to travel on those roads someday.. InshAllah

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-30 11:34:44 +0500 #35

YouTube - Road side restaurant on KABUL Highway by night.
Pls look at this also.

//youtu.be/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8UrzwM1A4

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-30 12:04:10 +0500 #36

YouTube - M2U00958
Also look at this video.

//youtu.be/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJmFA7uTn4g

system (system) 2010-10-30 12:35:48 +0500 #37

Very nice coverage of the trip! Would appreciate if you could put up some more pictures. Very brave of you to make the trip through Afghanistan! Excellent!

JavaidCh (Javaid Chauhdary) 2010-10-30 13:03:24 +0500 #38

YouTube - Farsi Dari Tajik Afghan song Amirjan saboori Shar Khali Jada Khali
Look the song by AMIR JAN SABRI
YouTube - Shar khali khana khali Nigora Kholova ????? ??? ??? ????
Look the same song by NIGORA KHOLOVA in audio

Kabul (Kabul) 2010-10-31 02:33:08 +0500 #39

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Kabul (Kabul) 2010-10-31 02:40:18 +0500 #40

Message for MEHRAN:
It is not brave to travel to Afghanistan. Afghanistan is much more peaceful country than Pakistan. Please spare some time and research on the internet. There has been not a single case of Civilians killing on Torkham, Jalabad, Kabul, Kunduz Road since last 4 years. Traffic moves Bumper to Bumper on the road day and night. People travel with out any fear. Watch the following links on you tube and you will understand: YouTube - M2U00971
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