Harvest Season Remote Afghani Rural Village Northern Border Central Asia

            Photo shot from the Tajikistan Border. Afghanistan is but a stone's throw away. 
The Panj River, is a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river is 1,125 km long and forms a considerable part of the Afghanistan - Tajikistan border.
The river is formed by the confluence of the Pamir River and the Wakhan River near the village of Qila-e Panja. From there, it flows westwards, forming the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. After passing the city of Khorog, capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan it receives water from one of its main tributaries, the Bartang River. It then turns towards the southwest, before joining the river Vakhsh and forming the greatest river of Central Asia, the Amudarya. Panj played a very important role during Soviet times, and was a strategic river during the Soviet military operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

   

Taken in: Tajikistan / Kuhistoni Badakhshon / Vanch (show map)

Taken on: June 25, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/4.0, 1/100 sec, 105mm, ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
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Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	125
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
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