fann tour #1

as we prepared to leave dushanbe for another trekking tour, i got talking with georg, a german dude who seemed cool and just decided to spontaneously tag along with me and the austrians. he didn't have any equipment, but we found some used camping gear at the hostel, which he took. hannah and axel already wanted to leave, so we split up to meet later.

we took a taxi to the place where cars left towards the general direction we were heading for and negotiated a price there. luckily, georg spoke a fair bit of russian, which was really helpful in finding a place where i could leave some of my stuff. we then hitchhiked further up into the mountains, but he didn't go as far as we needed to, so we had to hike into the night in order to catch up to the others, who were hopefully ahead of us.

i got along really well with georg, and he had a jbl speaker, so we introduced some techno to the local wildlife and got to the end of the jeep track at record pace. when we got to a resort complex in at the end of the valley, there was still no signal and no sign of our austrian friends, so we hopped a fence and walked a bit further up the mountain, now along footpath. shortly before midnight, when we got to the lake where we were supposed to meet them, there was still no sign, so we set up my tent and got some sleep.Read more