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continued from above ;)


buddist stupa over vrang village in pyanj river valley.


polish woman living in vrang, tajikistan, madame bronislawa de domo macierzewska. still in good health condition, despite the age of 77 and hard conditions of live.


hakim - hakim meas "doctor", also "wiseman". tajik homeless, rumbling through the mountains, in wintertime moving to dushanbe (there is warm). among others strange things - he knew the history of tadeusz kosciuszko. does anybody of you know anything about kosciuszko? (he was polish and american hero. in us he was fighting as an american general during the war for independence. he was projecting fortresses and battleground fortifications - e.g. west point, ticonderoga, saratoga. his monuments are located near white house and west point and some other places in us). hakim knows many about kosciuszko. very strange man. hakim, not kosciuszko, of course.


maisera pass, shakhdara range, tajikistan.


bulungkul lake, alichur pamir, tajikistan.


murgab - the mosque.


barbed-wire fence along formerly soviet-china border, now tajik-china. in soviet times - under high voltage. and behind - some kilometers of no-mans land.


kyrgyzstan - achik tash glacier.


a marmot.


lenin peak, aka qulai abu ibn sina, jelaidar chokusu, kaufmann peak (7134m) on tajik-kyrgyz border, 2nd highest in pamir.


sary tash - the place of nowhere, a small setllement on the crossroads from china, tajikistan and kyrgyzstan. a small cementery with tails of horses - when a "baba" (someone respected) dies, his horse dies too.


bazar in osh, kyrgyzstan. kurut - dried-to-stone yoghurt balls, sometimes with chilli or other taste.


polish jesuits in jalalabad, kyrgyzstan (two priests on the left). a lot of hospitality and warm. some 15-20 persons in the parish.


a panorama view from kaldama ashuu 3062m (ashu means pass), on the way from jalalabad to kazarman.


a necropolis near jangi talap, kyrgyzstan.


song kul lake, kyrgyzstan.


on the way to tosor ashuu.


while ascending to the tosor ashuu, the battery generator has detached (the strecher of the belt has broken). the same belt drives the battery generator and the cooler fan, so the engine became dangerously overheated. i solved the problem by wedging a stone between the engine and generator to tension the belt. it has been working well for whole way acroos the pass (3893m) and then over 2km down to the villages near issyk kul lake (1606m), where i welded it on the next day.


snowing on the tosor ashuu.


issyk kul lake.


across the rockjaws in the valley of castles, sharyn river canyon, kazakhstan.


valley of castles, sharyn river canyon, kazakhstan.


somewhere in kazakhstan.


again: it happens ;) the axle has broken. finally - not only the axle...


on the way home to poland, somewhere in kazakhstan.

and much more here (in polish, but there are links to my galleries):
megaPrzygoda.pl - galleries

thanks for you patience.
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WOW! great!

and probably the first report here of a car doing the Bartang!
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but of course not the first car doing the bartang.
i know some people (also from poland) that has done the valley during last years - 3 cars last year, and this year also 3 (including my and my friend's, met in khorog, we travelled together for 3 days; and another friend one month earlier). maybe there were more other cars, but i don't know. it was a very dry year (and the previous too), so hapilly we could travel acroos the valley.
i could say - the valley allowed us to travel.


bartang 2013. photo: piotr masicz.


bartang 2014. photo: dominika i marcin kozlowscy.


and mazeno and lukasz - bartang 2014.
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Lovely write up and excellent photos, interesting perspective from Polish eyes, thanks:-)
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Excellent photos with very nice composition and very nice metering to boot! - the photographer in me asks what setup you are using?

I am kinda drawn between UK to Africa or UK to Magadan, your images have put a few more ticks in the camp of the latter!!!

Cheers!

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> the photographer in me asks what setup you are using?
manual all the time.
i was educated (myself, i mean autodidact, long time ago) mostly on diapositive films (and still using analog camera parallel with digital - heh, and still i have no digital lenses, only analog). it is a bit expensive material, so you cannot try, and try, and try again as you can on digital camera... :)
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Awesome photos, keep up the good work please
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