You can do excellent treks in the surrounding Fan Mountains and further up the Zeravshan Valley.
The Fannsky Gory Fan Mountains are one of Central Asia's most popular trekking areas. You can do a day trip from Panjakent to the Seven Lakes Marquzor Lakes, about 60 km south of Panjakent. It costs about US$ 40 to hire a car from Panjakent 2007. Anothe favourite place is Iskander Kul, a mountain lake about 25 km south of the Panjakent Dushanbe road. There is, however, no public transport to the lake. The former Soviet holiday camp offers accomodation for 20TJS 2007 and a great lakeside restaurant. The lake is at an altitude of nearly 2200 m.
After having done the mandatory cultural tour, got stocked up on goodies on the bustling market in the center of town. Since it got modernized and reorganized, it lost quite a lot of its original charm, but it will still allow an impressive vision of traditional Tadjikistan on a busy day. Note that there is a another market for clothes mainly further east (not far from to the main bus terminal. Products there are fancy and cheap, but of dubious origin and quality.
Kamoli Khujandi Park
recreational park with a swimming pool and children's amusement park