Pamir Highway Travel Guide: Driving the Roof of the World in 2026 The Pamir Highway M41 is the world’s second-highest international road — 1,200 kilometres of Soviet-era asphalt, gravel, river crossing, and mountain pass connecting Dushanbe in Tajikistan to Osh in Kyrgyzstan across the Pamir Mountains, with the Wakhan Valley corridor running alongside the Afghan border, the 4,655-metre Ak-Baital Pass above the lunar plateau of the Eastern Pamir, the crystal lake of Karakul at 3,914 metres, and the Pamiri homesteads of Khorog and the Wakhan where the traditional architecture, Ismaili Islam, and the hospitality of a community at the intersection of the Silk Road’s most remote corridor makes every overnight…