Bazai Gonbad or Bozai Gumbaz is the site of a domed tomb and nearby settlement of mostly ethnic Kyrgyz herders in the Wakhan District of Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. It lies in the Little Pamir on the right bank of the Bozai River, near where it joins Wakhjir River to become the Wakhan River. It is part of the Wakhan National Park and protected by the Afghan Armed Forces.
The historical gonbads in the village
Ruin of Karwan-balasi near Bozai Gumbaz photographed by Aurel Stein
The Little Pamir is a broad U-shaped grassy valley or pamir in the eastern part of the Wakhan in north-eastern Afghanistan. The valley is 100 km long and 10 km wide, and is bounded to the north by the Nicholas Range, a subrange of the Pamir Mountains.
View across Lake Chakmaktin towards Ak-Tash, Little Pamir