-> From Osh to Sary Mogol

The road to Sary-Tash slopes gently uphill for the first 150 kilometers.

-> From Osh to Sary Mogol

The road becomes steeper then. Old Soviet trucks creep uphill with a top speed of 5 km/h - if they move at all.

-> Yurts

Having left Uzbek-dominated Osh, one reaches Kyrgyz area really soon.

-> Trekking begins

The next day, we started our tour. Heavy rain delayed our departure, but finally, around eight, the two Lada Nivas arrived to pick us up. They took us away from the Pamirs, to another mountain range, the Alaj. There, me and my three friends, Kenesh and two locals started to hike up the valley. Base-altitude was at about 2,500m; hence we had to climb up around 1,500m to the pass - quite a long way for us unexperienced hikers. We soon all became quite disillusioned: The locals found it easy to cross the torrent by jumping from stone to stone. All of us Berliners didn't manage it too easily, but fortunately, nothing else than wet shoes had to be bemoaned.

> At the heights

Vegetation slowly comes to an end when we approached pass-level.