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The Silk Road:Kashgar and the New Silk Road
... killing and to plan the widening and improvement of the road. In Passu, I watched the local boys playing cricket on the Karakoram Highway, pausing briefly for trucks to pass. The Passu Inn where I stayed was nearby, just next to the road. ...
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Olympic paranoia
... of rotgut, and a serious dearth of women. It was time to sign up for the ride up and over the rest of the Karakoram Highway. The final night in Gilgit was a steamer. Thickly heated pre-monsoon air lay in a swathe like a stack of Basotho ...
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Heading south on the KKH
I headed off south down the Karakoram Highway, the KKH, towards Pakistan. I was excited to be on this road with massive mountains jumping out at me from either side of the road. I was met at Karakul Lake, 4000m asl, by some Kyrgyz guys who took me to ...
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Very To See The Fragrant Of Muztagh Ata Story
... Lakes On Roots Of Iceberg wollen wir sehen und so fahren wir am Donnerstag in der Frueh die ca. 200 km den Karakoram Highway (der in weiterer Folge nach Pakistan geht) entlang und kommen damit wieder aus der wuestigen Senke Kashgars hinaus ins ...
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Karakoram Highway-Karakul Lake***
Entry containing 18 photos titled: Karakul Lake
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Karakoram Highway-Pamir Plateau***
Entry containing 75 photos titled: Pamir Plateau
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One boat to cross the mountains, please !
... meals in the overpriced restaurant), we went with Roman and some other backpackers (from Germany, Spain and Greece) upper on the Karakoram Highway (KKH), to Karimabad. There, we had the intention of making an one-day trek toward a meadow, nut the ...
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Karakoram Highway-MT Kongur***
Entry containing 14 photos titled: Mount Kongur
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Highest (paved) road in the world!!
... just touches West China) The Khunjerab Pass is the highest paved border crossing in the world and the highest point on the Karakoram Highway. The roadway across the pass was completed in 1982, and has superseded the unpaved Mintaka Pass and Kilik Pass ...
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Uyghurs do it in the Oven
... to soak up the Uyghur atmosphere in Old Town, 2) to attend the Sunday Livestock market, 3) to have access to the famous Karakoram Highway (KKH) that makes its way over one the highest mountain passes in the world and the Xinjiang-Qinhai Highway that goes ...
Karakoram Highway Map
- Taklamakan Desert
- Sayram Lake
- Southern Mosque
- Tianshan Mountains
- Xinjiang Regional Museum (Qu Bowuguan)
- Centre of Asia Marker
- Heavenly Lake (Tianchi Lake)
- John's Information Cafe
- Red Hill
- Ancient City of Gaochang (Kharakhoja)
- Ancient City of Jiaohe (Yarkhoto)
- Astana-Karakhoja Tombs
- Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
- Emin Minaret (Su Gong Ta)
- Flaming Mountains (Huoyan Shan)
- Karez System
