Tajikistan Tour: Follow The Dinosaur Trails

This trip will start from Dushanbe, In this trip you will cover three well known destinations of Tajikistan. The first day you will do more hiking to Shirkent valley, to see those footprints. Shirkent Valley has been established a nature Reserve in 1991, followed by the discovery of rare three sites of dinosaur footprints from various eras containing more than 400 trails. The first location of these giant, ancient reptiles is located in one of the right bank of Shirkent River, slightly above a village with the same name. Two lines of pterodactyl footprints are seen here on the surface of erinaceous limestone. The length of the footprints is 0,5m on the average, the width up to 30cm, and the step length about 75cm. Since there are no footprints known elsewhere like those in Shirkent, the animal that left them was placed in a new species of dinosaurs which is a suborder of Therapoda and was given the name Macropodosaurs Gravis. The second group of dinosaurs footprints is approximately 5km from the mouth of Shirkent river, near the watershed on ita left side. The third group of footprints is near Pashmi Kuna village and has the footprints of only Tridactylous, but it was a real giant. The length of its feet exceed 70cm, the width 60cm, and the depth of ground depression under its footprints is up to 10cm.

The second day will be Nurek, this is more Soviet architecture, The third day more nature & leisure to see Iskanderkul lake. Iskanderkul (Alexander the Great lake).

Little known & rarely visited Fann mountains form part of the Pamir Range tucked away in the northwest Tajikistan. The majestic, biggest lake called Lake Alexander, Iskanderkul is located at altitude of 2200mtrs. It is a pure gem of surrounding snowy peaks reflecting in calm mirrored surface. You may have difficulty to describe its color, from green to turquoise, blue to dark-purple, it changes together with the season time of the day,