Sources de Pamir Tajik

The Pamir Hot Springs in the Wakhan Corridor of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region are located in one of the most spectacularly remote and historically significant landscapes on Earth — a narrow strip of territory between Afghanistan and China at the eastern end of the ancient Silk Road, where Marco Polo famously traversed in the 13th century and described the wild Marco Polo sheep that still roam the plateau. The sulphurous springs emerge at high altitude from the Pamir granite and gneiss, used for centuries by local Wakhi and Kyrgyz herder communities as natural bathing and healing springs in a landscape of glaciated peaks reaching beyond 7,000 metres. The broader Pamir — the Roof of the World — with its yurt-dwelling nomads, wild yaks, Marco Polo argali sheep and the great rivers draining to the Oxus, Indus and Tarim basins, represents perhaps the last great wilderness of Central Asia. These springs are reached only by the most dedicated wilderness travellers.