Khujand, Khorog, Khazad Dum...
September 9th 2012 Quick quiz: which of the above-mentioned place names is NOT actually a place in Tajikistan?
Strange place names out of the ancient past aside, I have finally arrived (as of last Wednesday) in the place I will call home for the next 10 months. And what a home it is!
Khujand is in—well, right next to—the mountains, so the air is clean and fresh and not as dusty and dense as the capital. With t
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