Robert Matzinger's Cycling Karakoram Highway
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Cycling Karakoram Highway
Picture Gallery Part 6
Xinjang Highlands
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Vast and open highlands, snow covered mountains, crystal clear air
and a lonely road, that's what we see the next days...
...beside some encounters, we are not so used to.
The night's are cold in this vast high and often desert-like land.
Poeple are quite shy, seldom we get a contact. But if so, hospitality is
great and communication works easily without a common language.
It's about 120 km to go into China's territory before we reach
the border control post that officially let's us enter.
The landscape at the Karakul lake clearly belongs to the highlights of the
journey.
The vast land, the lake and - some dozens of km's away, still almost
to be touched with the hand - the mountains Muztagh Ata and Konghur Shan
(both more than 7000m high). It's breathtaking. We camp at one of the most
picturesque campsites we had in life and when out of a sudden an
ancient-looking caravan passes by, we feel to be taken back 1000 years in a
time-wharp.
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Vast and open highlands, snow covered mountains, crystal clear air
and a lonely road, that's what we see the next days...
...beside some encounters, we are not so used to.
It's about 120 km to go into China's territory before we reach
the border control post that officially let's us enter.
