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Tashkurgan Slideshow
Tashkurgan
Travel Blogs from Tashkurgan, China
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The Father of Mountains
This is a top pick! ... so I slept in a little. After more bread and tea, and more displays of the Kyrgyz handiwork, we left for Tashkurgan, the westernmost city in China and the closest one to Pakistan, along the Karakorum Highway. Tashkurgan's people are mostly Tajik, the ...
Heading south on the KKH
This is a top pick! ... like one big selling opportunity for the inhabitants. As I stood on the side of the road waiting for the bus to take me to Tashkurgan, the Chinese border town, a local guy asked me if I wanted to share a taxi as we had the same destination. The more ...
On the lash with the Tajik lads
This is a top pick! ... that the proprietor had kindly tripled his rates for the occasion. And the hot water didn't work. There wasn't a lot open in Tashkurgan. I picked the liveliest looking place. It was quite packed and I was ushered to a table already occupied by what ...
There's a reason I didn't much like the Boy Scouts
... us by providing good sleeping bags, sleeping bag pads, and, for me, a heavier jacket than I had brought to China when I left Seattle, two weeks before the tour began.) Come bedtime, everyone but Gary and me quickly disappeared ...
Les Pamirs Chinois sur la Karakorum Highway
Nous en route sur la Karakorum Highway, la route mythique qui relie la Chine au Pakistan, et la plus haute route carrossable internationale au monde. La Karakorum Highway passant à plus de 4600m, on s'imagine une route de montagne très étroite ...
Salam Sheep Alekum.
On the way to Chotan we stopped a night in Yarkad, where we had some trouble finding a hotel, and even more trouble getting rid of the guy who helped us find one! He just wouldnt leave us alone, it wasn't that he was a bad person... but he just came into ...
Tashkurgan, China
... transport to this high altitude (~10,500ft), lifeless city. a few han chinese could speak mandarin, but otherwise you weren't in china. I was able to line up a ticket for tomorrow morning on the international bus to sost, pakistan, went out and bought ...
Finally in Uyghurland!
... world being here. Unlike the Tibetans, Uyghurs have developed a much more modern and secular society of their own within China. They have their own Uyghur language tv stations, and boy are those stations popular, even uyghur talk shows! ...
Into China.......eventually!!!
When the Chinese border guards finally let us in to the country!!! We headed to Kashgar. We stayed for the night in a nice little hotel, where we were welcomed by dancers!! Quite surreal. Then up early and off to head down the Karakorum Highway, stopping ...
Syrjainen kiinalaistunut pikku kaupunki
... liki 20 vuotta ja vaati yli 400 kuolonuhria, joten ilmaiseksi ei reittia lapi noiden uskomattomien maisemien puhkaistu. Tashkurgan on kummallinen pikkukaupunki syrjaisessa Tashkurganin laaksossa Tashkurgan-joen rannalla. Erityisesti ennen Karakoram Hwy:n ...
Highest (paved) road in the world!!
... the Silk road where locals took advantage of the terrain, robbed the caravans and slaughtered their merchants. My journey started at in Tashkurgan from where I had tried to book the bus for the next day but was informed that I couldn't but this would ...
At Home in Lovely Tashkorgan - We Find Hunza Man
... dishes - to say nothing of the joys of seeing fresh fish - on the menu in a place that is about as remote and far west in China as you can get. It was great to be back in the laid back township of Tashkorgan. It was our third visit. We had explored most ...
Stone City of Kite Runner Movie Fame
... ‘yes’ and now he had a friend. And now he wanted to go all the way to the border further than our destination of Tashkurgan. He was willing to pay the 200RMB extra to go all the way. Now we had seven to split the cost of the trip. And when ...
leaving China
... connected to nature, although that dried yogurt they can keep for themselves :-p The next day we visit the stone castle in Tashkurgan, the last town before the border. It’s Tadjik town where they wear traditional clothes and hats. And it’s ...
Khunjerab Pass
... . The scenery was truly awesome. So goodbye Pakistan hello China! The bus over the border, from Sust in Pakistan to Tashkurgan in China, is one of the great journeys of the world, passing over the Khunjerab Pass at 4900m. The journey up was dramatic ...
Bazaars et vieilles villes à Karghilik et Yarkand
Nous continuons notre route vers Kashgar en nous arrêtant à Karghilik et à Yarkand. Ces deux bourgades ont une ambiance sympa, avec chacune leur bazaar et leur vieille ville. A part ca, pas grand chose à raconter, je vous laisse ...
Kingata Shan!!!!
... that day, Johan said to me that he "just didn't feel like working." Hello??? Johan was also spewing tales about life in China. I downgraded to believing about 75% of what Johan said. June 18: We wait around for the Slovenians, who have gotten stuck ...
Karakul Lake
beautiful blue lake surrounded by snow capped mountains and..yes... camels. the white, concrete yurts were a litte touristy though. nice to take photos for an hour or so but I couldn't imagine spending a night ...
Stunning fortresses and shimmering lakes
... in the last few thousand years. Regardless it's a very picturesque place that makes the lack of Pakistani curry in Tashkurgan very bearable. Completely unprotected and deteriorating at a rapid pace, the fortress sits on a hill overlooking the valley and ...
Camels are as slow as they look
... up spitting at me, but Peter had never tried it so we went ahead. I don't know how it's done elsewhere, but the camels in China are controlled through a small stake that's driven through the sinus from one end to the other. A rope is tied to one end and ...
Pakistan Border
... it across the commercial part of town and down into the valley below the town, I realized what a beautiful place surrounds Tashkurgan. Below the last road of town, I found a river with green fields stretching to the mountains on each ...
This car isn't built for the Karakorum
... bring theirs) the mountains loom even higher. To get to Tashkurgan you actually drive along a dry riverbed that twists among the mountains. Tashkurgan the town is nothing to write home about. But I guess I'll do it anyway. It's a one-road border town ...
Karakol Lake
En-route to Kashgar we decided to stay at Karakol lake, 3700m above sea level. The lake is famed and lugging our tent 6000km already on this trip for only 3 weeks use was also motivation for unwrapping the fly and putting in some pegs. We were a bit ...
Kyrgyz People
... at the side of the road and flagged down a bus headed the rest of the way along the Karakorum Highway to Tashkurgan, the last town before you leave China for Pakistan. While waiting on the side of the road the weather turned from a nice, warm, ...
Korakoram Highway to Pakistan Photo Essay only
The drive along the Pamir mountains was too beautiful to put into words and the town too grotty to bother with. Famous quote from one of the newbies on the trip. "So we are driving all the way up this road just to come back down again?" Ahh to ...
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