Tajikistan travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Tajikistan, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Tajikistan: Pamir Highway, Dushanbe.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Tetanus up to date
- Rabies for the Pamirs
Emergency number
103 for an ambulance, 102 for police
Care for visitors
Evacuation likely
Thin. Dushanbe has one or two clinics a visitor would use; Khorog has a hospital that can stabilise; the Pamir Highway has nothing for days at a time. Carry what you need and insure for evacuation, which means a flight from Dushanbe.
The Pamirs are over 4,000 m for days and altitude sickness is the common emergency; acclimatise in Khorog and carry the medicine. Tap water is not drunk anywhere. The heat in Dushanbe in July is 40°C. Landslides and the road are the real risk.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Tajikistan
Pamir HighwayTajikistanThe second-highest road in the world, along the Afghan border and over a 4,655-metre pass, from Khorog to Murghab in a 4x4 that stops at every homestay
DushanbeTajikistanA tree-lined capital with the tallest flagpole in Asia, a bazaar under a green dome, and the mountains that make up ninety per cent of the country an hour away