Botanist, poet and collector Mirzosho Akobirov has spent decades planting seeds and saplings of numerous local and exotic fruit trees in his extensive botanical garden. Many trees have curiously grafted several fruit types onto single ruit stocks such that a pistachio tree might simultaneously be producing plums and apricots. A museum and handicraft centre is under construction to better show off Mirzosho's privae collection of ethnographic and historical nicknacks and a guesthouse (almost complete) will have a balcony view that will rate as one of the most stunning in all Tajikistan. Note that for now all of the above is a 'work in progress' without as yet any fixed opening times or ticket price and that no English is spoken, but already Mirzosho can organise guides and horses for hiking up the valley and - possibly beyond over a pass into the bucolicYasman area.
At the other end of Jafr vilage beside Km182, a 2 minute climb brings you to Mirzosho's octagonal pergola with 270 degrees of wow-factor mountain panorama.
