Sary-Tash (Kyrgyz: Сары-Таш) is a village and major crossroads in the Alay Valley of Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan.
Although this remote village has only some shop-cafes, a petrol station and five guest houses (March 2016), it is an important road junction connecting China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
To the south, after leaving the Alay Valley the M41 rises to the 4280m Kyzylart Pass into Tajikistan as part of the Pamir Highway.
The pass at the west end (towards Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is a bilateral border crossing closed to foreigners.
[4] Sary-Tash was visited in 1894 by Swedish traveller Sven Hedin, who wrote his caravan before his mountaineering ascent "fell on their knees in the snow, offering Allah a prayer for a happy pass through the dangerous Kyzyl-Art, where sudden disastrous storms often occur."