Oksu

The Aksu crosses the high eastern Pamirs through a landscape of broad valleys, bare mountains and severe winters. After meeting the Akbaital it becomes the Murghab, and farther west its waters flow as the Bartang to the Panj. This is a sparsely settled upland country, with pastures amid the great ridges and passes that separate the headwaters of the Oxus from the lands to the east.