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  Murghob Hotels Reviews, Tips, Photos - VirtualTourist.com
Home » Travel Guides » Asia » Tajikistan »; Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon » Murghob » Hotels and Accommodations
Reviews and photos of Murghob hotels posted by real travelers and locals.
The best tips on Murghob lodging and accommodations.
www.virtualtourist.com /hotels/Asia/Tajikistan/Viloyati_Mukhtori_Kuhistoni_Badakhshon/Murghob-1431355/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Murghob-BR-1.html   (141 words)

  
  result - www.racingpost.co.uk
But he still found enough off the bridle from the furlong mark to hold off the strong challenge of Murghob, who also raced keenly and had to be switched.
Trainer Alex Embiricos said of the winner: "He was done for a bit of toe in a better race at Newmarket last time, but he may in any case be better on a turning track." He can win again in his present form, but plans now are to start schooling him for hurdling.
Murghob, who flopped on soft ground last time, ran a sound race but found the progressive winner too good.
www.racingpost.co.uk /horses/result.sd?race_id=321753   (259 words)

  
 Varorud.org - Information & Analitics Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The project is aimed at maintaining control over the lake; it should maximally promote a preclusion of a potential ecology holocaust, which may wash away the natural dam shaped in the outcome of the earthquake, which overlapped the Murghob riverbed.
Sharp lowering of temperature in September spurred the stock-raisers of the Alpinest area of Tajikistan, Murghob district of Kuhistoni Badakhshon autonomous viloyat, to start the preparing for driving cattle away from summer pastures to winter stalls.
The spring-summer period of the current year told favorable upon the growth of fodder plants in the Alpine locality affording to steeply increase husbandry produce.
www.varorud.org /english/herald/pulse170903.html   (802 words)

  
 Varorud.org - Information & Analitics Agency
Frequent disconnections of electricity in Murghob district made the publishers of the mostly popular newspaper “Sarykol” apply for help to their neighbors - polygraph workers of Osh (Kyrgyzstan).
Murghob HEPS reckoned for the production of 450 kilowatts/hours is working now only for a third of its capacity.
It is attributed to the worn out equipment which served for several decades being not substituted for.
www.varorud.org /english/herald/pulse230703.html   (1186 words)

  
 Carlow Nationalist - 2003/08/13: Tinryland - Ladies footballers take county title
LOCAL HORSE WINS: Having been placed at the recent Killarney and Galway festivals locally owned Murghob visited the winners enclosure at Downpatrick races on Saturday last when the four year-old gelding won the Downpatrick Museum Maiden Hurdle over 2 miles and 6 furlongs.
Murghob is owned by Shay and Rita Byrne of Linkardstown and is trained at Bagenalstown by in-form trainer Pat Hughes.
LATE THOMAS BUTLER: The death of Thomas Butler, Castletown, as the result of a tragic drowning accident at Lanigan’s Lock on Monday last caused much sadness in the area.
archives.tcm.ie /carlownationalist/2003/08/13/story18310.asp   (1263 words)

  
 Travel Tajikistan - Tajikistan Weather Forecasts
Alichur (Kirgyz settlement on the Pamir Highway to Murghob)
Murghob (eastern city on the Pamir plateau close to China)
If you can't find the place you are looking for, click on the image below to get a complete list of all Accuweather forecasts for Tajikistan:
www.traveltajikistan.com /news/forecast.html   (108 words)

  
 BBC News | Monitoring | Flooding from Tajik mountain lake feared
Scientists fear a mountain lake could flood large areas of central Asia if it is hit by an earthquake, Moscow Echo radio reported on Sunday.
It said that Sarez lake was orignally formed when an earthquake set off a landslide which blocked the path of the Murghob river in the Pamir mountains.
The natural dam is 600 metres high and more than 4 km wide.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/letter_from_america/20156.stm   (150 words)

  
 Tajikistan, a new emerging economy
With the aim of further strengthening trade, economic and friendly relations between the Republic of Tajikistan and the neighbouring countries, the government of the Republic of Tajikistan resolves:
To organize the border trade of provisions and other consumer goods with the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan in the towns and districts of Isfara, Mastchoh, Nov and Konibodom of [northern] Soghd Region and Murghob District of [eastern] Mountainous Badakhshon Autonomous Region, [central] Jirgatol District and Tursunzoda town.
The chairmen of the districts and towns are to assist the immediate construction and equipment of border trade markets.
www.newnations.com /archive/2003/November/tj.html   (1729 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Russian border troops guarding Tajikistan's frontier with China handed over their responsibilities to Tajik soldiers of the Murghob border guard unit on 20 December, Interfax reported.
There are a total of eight posts and a command center along the border, according to the Tajikistan's State Border Protection Committee Chairman Abrurrakhmon Azimov.
Meanwhile, the Varorud news agency noted the same day that much of the border area in eastern Tajikistan's Murghob Raion has been ceded to China in an interstate agreement.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/12/2-TCA/tca-231202.asp?po=y   (2234 words)

  
 DCP: 38 degrees north, 74 degrees east (visit #2)
18.6 km (11.6 miles) S of Murghob, Kuhistoni Badakhshon, Tajikistan
22-Sep-2004 -- We were visiting Jans brother in Tadjikistan, who is working for ACTED a french ngo in Murghob.
The town itself is located on a plateau about 3600 meters high and only reachable via the pamir highway that winds itself over passes with up to 4600 meters.
www.confluence.org /confluence.php?lat=38&lon=74   (207 words)

  
 Great Game Travel - Pamir Jeep Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Unlike trading routes across steppe, which form a complex web, the mountain tracks followed a fixed route, passing along valley floors.
This tour follows the route from Khorog to Murghob, which was once the Wakhan branch of the ancient Silk Road.
Apart from trade caravans and military units, missionaries and pilgrims passed along this road giving it the name Road of Ideologies.
greatgametravel.co.uk /jeeptours/pamir.html   (250 words)

  
 ISS002 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Lake Sarez, Tajikistan: Lake Sarez (top), deep in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan, was created 90 years ago when a strong earthquake triggered a massive landslide that, in turn, became a huge dam along the Murghob River, now called the Usoi Dam.
The resulting lake is perched above surrounding drainages at an elevation greater than 3000m, and is part of the watershed that drains the towering Akademi Nauk Range (see the regional image, lower).
earth.jsc.nasa.gov /debrief/ISS002/topFiles/ISS002-E-7771.htm   (301 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
Rivers that originate outside the republic constitute the main surface-water features.
The Amu Darya, which forms part of the country's border with Uzbekistan, and the Murghob, which originates in Afghanistan, are the two largest permanent rivers.
Extensive canal systems provide irrigation and drinking water, which are crucial for the country's economy and well-being.
www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/tm.html   (488 words)

  
 Slowfood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At Murghob, near the Chinese border between Akbaytal and Tukhmtamish in the mountainous east of Kyrgyzstan, yak herders were thinking it.
The same thought was crossing the minds of dried-mango producers in Burkina Faso, monastic brewers in Belgium and poultry farmers in Guatemala, while in the vast expanses of a royal palace in London, it will have entered the head of a familiar figure with an affable, eternally bewildered, smile.
But I have always believed in the idea that he who sows utopias, harvests realities."
www.slowfood.com /eng/sf_stampa/sf_stampa_dett_rass_int.lasso?idstampa=US_00329   (1575 words)

  
 Ray's Excellent Adventure - Tajikistan
These stops are to curtail the opium trafficking from Afghanistan, not to hassle sheep hunters.
we stopped at a stucco adobe village of 5,000 Tajiks, it is Murghob - stronghold of the Pamir people, home to the Sherpa guides and the fabled Marco Polo sheep.
I am looking at my mideast map, looking at the towns I have been to and by: Murghob, Kroug, Bishkek, Osh, while the Jeeps race.
www.milliganbrand.com /Article2002.html   (5101 words)

  
 Great Game Travel - 4WD Jeep Tours
Unlike trading routes across steppe, which form a complex web, the mountain tracks followed a fixed route, passing along valley floors.
This tour follows the route from Khorog to Murghob, which was once the Wakhan branch of the ancient Silk Road.
Apart from trade caravans and military units, missionaries and pilgrims passed along this road giving it the name Road of Ideologies.
www.greatgametravel.co.uk /jeeptours   (434 words)

  
 Groverdean Murghob Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
"Part 2-Murgab on the Pamir..." a Murghob Travel Page by Groverdean
Home » Asia » Tajikistan »; Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon » Murghob » Groverdean Murghob Travel Page
Same 4-star hotel, same room, at a much lower rate.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/1f632/15d73b   (1167 words)

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