D-33: floods and Badakhshan

Today, I tried to get some informations about the condition of the roads either in Tajikistan or in Badakhshan. My first source of information was the reliefweb.int website, which compile informations about a given country coming from many sources. It is mainly aimed to the humanitarian community, but it is a real mine of information for the off-beaten track's traveler.

The last article about the floods in Badakhshan comes from the UN press service IRINnews. It doesn't speak about road opening, but only about bridges destruction. Nothing more precise. See here for more.

The situation in Tajikistan seems to be clearer. I asked someone on the Thorntree of LonelyPlanet. His answer was quite positive.The roads seem to be open, even if their quality have not become better... See here for some less positive IRIN informations.

I posted some time ago a question on the YahooGroup Oxiana, which is specialized in for Travelers in Central Asia. But I got no answers: it seems to be difficult to get informations on the Afghan's Badakhshan...

Let's see...