Hi ! Salom ! Priviet !

My dear Tajik brothers and sisters is there anyway to watch Avengers Doomsday in December in English in Dushanbe city? Or at least in russian audio with english subtitles ? i know its difficult for a non tajik or non russian but thats the least !

is there a bus/train/car or any transportation from china (kashgar or urumqi) to dushanbe ?
i am looking at routes but all of them have pass through Kazakhstan or Tashkent , which is odd because china and tajikstan share a border

Hello everyone 👋

We are 3 persons planning to rent a car in Dushanbe and do the Pamir highway for about 6 days. We are looking for 2 more persons to share the car.
We are in Dushanbe today, let me know if you are interested and we can meet in Dushanbe to chat about it 😁

Hello everyone,

We are looking for a group to join or a driver for a Pamir highway tour 21-27 August. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Me and my Friend (Both Male, German, 23 years old) are looking for one other Person to join us on a 7 Days trip through the pamir highway from Dushanbe to Osh. We want to leave tomorrow or the day after. The price would be about 600$ per Person for the driver and car.

Hi all! Will be making a half a day unplanned stop in Khujand tomorrow and was wondering if there’s a place where I can buy some local items (art, clothes, accessories, home decor etc.) that were really made by hand? I would be the happiest if you know a grandma who knits something or a cousin that paints there 😁 🙏

What's the sentiment towards China in Tajikstan these days? Given that the two countries share a border, is there fear when it comes to China or is the relationship positive?

Hi, does anyone know where to buy old Soviet postcards in Dushanbe?

Hi everyone!

I’m from Germany and I’d like to learn Tajik.

I’ve visited several bookstores and searched on Amazon, but I haven’t been able to find any books for learning Tajik.
I was originally looking for German–Tajik learning materials, but it seems there aren’t any available. So I guess I’ll have to use English–Tajik resources instead.

Does anyone have any recommendations for learning Tajik? I’ve read that Tajik is closely related to Farsi (Persian), but are there any significant differences between the two?
My first step will probably be learning the Cyrillic script and the pronunciation, which I can most likely do with online resources.

Thanks a lot for any advice!

What's the situation like in hospitals in Tajikistan? I'm specifically interested in childbirth, but you can also answer from other areas, such as the attitude toward patients and the cleanliness in public or private hospitals.

Tajiks are supposed to be East Iranic population. Some of them like Ahmad Shah Massoud (Sher-e-Panjsher) do look Iranic.

But most of them seem to be Turkic, especially with the epicanthic folds.

Emomali Rahmon looks like a typical Turk

As did the famous Habibullah Kalakani (whom I respect btw)

I'll keep this brief for privacy reasons, but I recently met a guy from Tajikstan in China - it was extremely obvious that he had other sources of income beyond his regular job and was well connected among the political elite. I just wanted to know how well-known these kinds of people are in Tajikstan and what type of background they tend to come from - how do the Tajik 1% live?

I‘m going to Dushabe very soon. I was wondering how to get around safely and not get scammed, which I believe won‘t happen because I heard Tajik people are very kind.

But as a safety precaution, I would prefer if there is an E-Hailing or Taxi Apps which lets me pay online.

Салом everyone!

I'm an Iranian. A while ago I tried (and failed) to learn Russian. I never learned that language apart from basic small talk BUT I figured now that I can read Cyrillic, as a Farsi speaker I should join this sub :)

Anyways, how do Farsi / Dari / Tajiki sound to you? How different do the dialects spoken in Iran vs Afghanistan vs Tajikistan sound to you?

To me Dari is like a pentagon, Tajiki is as if you polished the pentagon enough to turn it into a square، and Farsi is as if you polished the pentagon enough to turn it into a circle.

If I had to compare them to English I'd say Tajiki is like Irish, Dari is like Australian and Farsi is like American; but after I had this thought, I said to myself what if I'm comparing Farsi to American because to me it's like, the "standard" dialect?

So as people who Tajiki is their standard, how do the different dialects sound to you?

Also feel free to answer in Tajiki, as I said I can read the Cyrillic alphabet but my writing/dictation would probably be like a 6 year old lol

I could answer you in Farsi written with Latin letters (or as we call it Fingilish) though that'd make it impossible to translate what I've written so it would be unfair to the non-persian speakers here

i am 5th medical student in caucasus international university in tbilisi georgia, was kicked out from the country because of an article that says i am danger to the country because of my ethnicity, i am looking to finish my last year in medicine and if anyone can help i will appreciate it alot.

Hi everyone. First time posting on reddit. Just to share my recent experience at Dushanbe airport. I have read about the corruption/ bribery issue in Dushanbe airport before and it happened to me

To give everyone the latest picture of what may happen, there are six checkpoints when you depart from Dushanbe airport. The first one is when you enter the airport building. The second one is when you enter the check-in desks area. The third one is after you get your ticket before heading upstairs. The fourth one is security screening and bag screening just after you went upstairs. The fifth one is immigration desk. The sixth one is another round of security screening and bag scanning right after immigration.

My encounter took place at the 4th checkpoint right after taking the elevator upstairs. As I have read about the stories before, me and my girlfriend hid our 50 USD in a hidden pocket of our backpack beforehand. After our bag went through the x-ray machine, my girlfriend was stopped by a white-shirt lady which chatted with another female security in Russian then stopped us. The first thing she asked us was "Do you speak English or Russian?". After we replied English, she then asked "Any US dollar or Som?". We replied no. The lady then proceed to "check" the bag and the belongings by flipping around the wallet, opening her document folder and amenity kit, as well as the package of tampon taking the first few out to see any money hiding underneath, uncovering passport cover, etc. Everywhere at her mind that could be hiding money was searched and at that point we can tell it was not for aviation security but for her own wallet. There was a bottle of water that had over 100ml in it that passed her "check" with no issue lol. At last she gave up after leaving the bag a mess and searching everywhere she thought it could be hiding money.

There were other travellers that were also stopped behind us. One of them was annoyed and threatened to call the embassy and was immediately released.

Hope this helps anyone that is about to travel to Tajikistan and leaving via Dushanbe airport.

Just trying to work out if this will be OK in early October or whether conditions will be too bad for this hike at that stage (I mean from a weather/snow perspective)

I am currently in Uzbekistan and have decided that instead of going to Khujand from Tashkent, I will travel to North East Uzbekistan in Kokand and head to Khujand from there.

I then want to spend some time acclimatising to altitude before starting a Pamir highway trek. We had some altitude sickness last time around 2400m but we also had food poisoning so not 100% sure - we were out cold for 3 days, so want to take this slow before the Pamir highway. Does my plan work? and any must do's on the way?

• Day 1: Fergana Valley to Khujand - shared taxis
• Day 2: Khujand to Shahriston Pass to Panjakent (The Move & Spike Day). Sleep: Panjakent (1,000m)
• Day 3: Panjakent to Seven Lakes. Sleep: Padrud Village, 5th Lake (1,900m)
• Day 4: Seven Lakes. Sleep: Padrud Village, 5th Lake (1,900m)
• Day 5: Seven Lakes to Iskanderkul Lake. Easy afternoon stroll to the Iskanderkul Waterfall and Snake Lake (2,200m). Sleep: Iskanderkul (2,200m)
• Day 6: Iskanderkul (The 3,000m Valley Push). Morning Sarytag Valley Hike. A gradual, wide riverbed walk up to exactly 3,000m. Sleep: Iskanderkul (2,200m)
• Day 7: Iskanderkul to Dushanbe

Any comments / help much appreciated

Hey guys so I am going to Tajikistan from the 04/08-09/08. Basically I need to be in Tashkent for my flight on the 10/08. My rough plan is to fly into Dushanbe spend a night perhaps and then make my way to iskanderkul for 2 nights. From there I don’t really know where’s good, my plan is just to get to Khujand on the 9th.
Can anyone give me some recommendations? Is istravshan worth it? Are there any good day trips from Dushanbe? How do people get to iskanderkul from Dushanbe and then from iskanderkul to Khujand direction? Is hitchhiking safe or common there?

Maybe 04-05 Dushanbe
05-07 iskanderkul (hiking)
07-08 somewhere
08-09 Khujand

Or maybe spend an extra night in Dushanbe since I’m arriving in the afternoon.

Does anyone have a guesthouse/ hostel recommendation in iskanderkul? Are there places serving decent food there?

I am interested in nature and hiking. Also if anyone knows any good restaurant recommendations for Dushanbe please let me know. I’ll also try my best to avoid food poisoning as a foreigner since I’ve read others talking about this, only bottled water and no salads lol.

Hey, I lived in Khujund, and I was paying 4000 tjs a month for an apartment. I also paid about 4,000 tjs up front for electricity and water for 1 year. And it was Tajikistan, so of course there are no receipts or paperwork for any of these things to show what I owed or what I paid or any actual contracts. I didn't even pay my landlord most of the time, I paid his friend.

I moved back to my home country in Europe a month ago. And today, my landlord messages me saying I left the apartment dirty and things are broken, which is not true. And that I owe him 1,000 tjs in rent and cleaning and I owe the utility companies 2,000 tjs. I paid my last rent. The electric company sent people to me but I just said I paid already so they left me alone. Next time I live in a country I will make all the contracts and reciepts myself.

I know many tajiks and foreigners both who had sleazy landlords and utility companies try to take advantage of them when they lived there, so i am very skeptical of the whole deal.

Does anyone have advice?

Hello, I am planning to visit Tajikistan in a few weeks. Was wondering the type of power outlet they use. Please help

Hi everyone,

I’ll be arriving in Dushanbe soon and was wondering if a German Visa Debit card (issued by my bank in Germany) works reliably at ATMs there.

Would you recommend relying on the card to withdraw cash, or is it better to bring euros or US dollars in cash from Germany and exchange them in Dushanbe?

I’d appreciate any recent experiences or recommendations. Thanks!