Some 500m off the main road in Yamg is the reconstructed house museum of Sufi mystic, astronomer and musician Mubarak Kadam Wakhani (1843–1903). One room contains typical ethnographic artefacts plus books and manuscripts of the master. The other is designed as a classic 19th-century Pamiri home where the caretaker will likely serenade you on a few of the traditional instruments. On the approach lane outside is a 'solar calendar', a stone with a hole focussed on more stones on the ridge to the west across which the sunset aligns on March 21st (Novruz). As you come into town call first at the house of key-keeper Aydar Malikmamadov (and his English-speaking son Nozim) who will open the place for you. Aydar's family run two of the village's three homestays.
