• Arrive at Kabul International Airport • Meet & greet by your local guide • Transfer to hotel and time to rest • If time permits, visit nearby local markets to experience daily Kabul life • Overnight: Hotel in Kabul

Drive to Faizabad, capital of Badakhshan province. Roads vary from paved to rough gravel. Focus: acclimatisation to Afghan travel rhythm; explore the city bazaar. Photography: urban life, river crossings, mountain foothill scenery.

Travel deeper into the mountains via Baharak and onward to Ishkashim, the official gateway to the Wakhan. Focus: permit verification, final supply purchases. Photography: terraced fields, village life, views of the Hindu Kush.

Enter the narrow Wakhan Corridor, following the Panj River east along villages such as Qazideh and Qala-e-Panj. Photography: Wakhi homesteads, wild cliffs, river landscapes.

Continue to the end-of-road settlement Sarhad-e-Broghil, via Khandud, surrounded by dramatic peaks. Photography: Wakhi pastoral life, yaks, sweeping valley compositions.

From Sarhad-e-Broghil continues the journey eastward via Borak, a small Wakhi settlement, after which we enter the otherworldly Little Pamir, home of the Afghan Kyrgyz. Arrive in the Bozai Gumbaz region, identifiable by its unique domed tombs and stark Pamir plateau. Photography: desolate plateau, Kyrgyz encampments, camels and yaks against huge skies.

Full days living among the Kyrgyz nomads. Opportunities to visit yurts, observe daily routines, photograph herding, milking, and family life—with sensitivity and permission. Explore lakes, seasonal pastures, and caravan trails used for centuries. Optional hike or horseback excursion deeper into side valleys. Photography: portrait sessions, yurt interiors, long-lens shots of herders, sunrise over the plateau, wildlife (Marco Polo sheep if lucky), dramatic cloud formations

Begin the return journey westward from the high plateau, retracing the route through wide valleys and river meadows.Photography: river fords, nomadic caravans, afternoon light on the ridge lines.

Descend back into the Wakhan proper. From Sarhad-e-Broghil return to Qala-e-Panj for the night. Photography: Wakhi farms, children at play, sweeping valley views.

Drive from Ishkashim to Kunduz (long drive). Reach Kunduz by evening.

Leave Kunduz early and drive to Kabul through Salang tunnel to Bamyan

Departure Day from Kabul international airport. End of the trip.