Fann Mountains: four days on foot from Ghazza

4 days / 3 nightsFrom: Samarkand

You unpack once. Every day is a walk out and back to the same guesthouse, with dinner on the rooftop under the stars.

What you come for

Day by day

day

08:00 · Breakfast and the border crossing.
11:00 · Ancient Panjakent with a local guide: the foundations of houses, the citadel and two Zoroastrian fire temples. Lunch.
15:00 · 60 km up to Ghazza. Check in at the guesthouse, a walk through the village, dinner.

105 km by roadnight: guesthouse

day

09:00 · On foot to Vory at 1900 m — about a thousand people in 120 houses, the architecture of the 18th–19th centuries.
13:00 · Lunch with a local family — home-cooked Tajik food. Walk back to Ghazza.

10 + 10 km on footnight: guesthouse

day

09:00 · Up the Khushtarita valley and a climb to Murgobi lake — 4 km, about an hour. The mountains around are Obshor, Kyrgon, Kantif and Sarpyshak.
13:00 · Picnic by the lake and a visit to the families who spend the summer here in tents with their animals.
18:00 · Down to Ghazza. Dinner on the guesthouse rooftop with the mountains all around.

12 + 12 km on footnight: guesthouse

day

09:00 · Breakfast and the drive to the Marguzor lakes, stopping at each of the seven.
14:00 · Lunch, then back through Panjakent to the border and on to Samarkand.

seven lakesfinish in Samarkand

3 nights on the route

The bigger the group, the cheaper it is per person. The price is final — no fuel surcharges.

«+1» means the accompanying person travels free.

Single room supplement — $90.

Reviews · 0 out of 5

★★★★★

Four days in the Fann Mountains with Farrukh. He set the pace for the slowest of us, and the plov in Ghazza was the best I have had.

Emma JohnsonUK · June 2026

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