27th of September:
We decide to visit together with Jaskun and Kaori the Hot Springs in the mountains. This hot spring has a lot of calcium and other minerals and builds up something like a big white pudding. Behind that is a big pool filled with hot milk (:). It looks like milk but of course it just because of all the calcium. Sitting in there and enjoying the view in the valley. After the hot spring we try to find a spring of sparkling mineral water that is also in this valley. It gets stonier and we ask a guy for the way. He just points down, hey its there. He is from Great Britain and just enjoys here the weekend with his wife and two kids. He also can speak a little Japanese. He invites us to have some coffee and some really delicious homemade cookies. I ask him what he is working in Tajikistan and he tells me that he works for the NGO Mercy. They help local people in the Wahkan valley to build up small business. In his case they try to build up mushroom farms. I wonder why mushrooms?! The landscape and the area are not made for it. They have to build special rooms which have to be warm and wet. Therefore they need a lot of electricity. So I really wonder; why is it a good idea? It is not based on the natural resources they have there. So they will be dependent on electricity that is sometimes not available in the valley. Anyway he thinks it is a great idea to grow mushrooms in Wakhan.
We go further and just stop 13 km before Khorog where Jaskun and Kaori want to get there Afghanistan Visa next morning. We make a camp at a location above the river being at a really narrow point in the valley. Far above us in Afghanistan we can see some light from some houses which are build in the rocks of the valley.
(N 37.41544°, E 71.49658 °)
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