Xinjiang Saga – pamir plateau, on the way to Pakistan

After my trip to Iceland about 7 years ago, I thought I have seen some of the strangest and most beautiful landscapes in the world… But when we we were driving on the Pamir plateau towards the border of pakistan, I started to hesitate…

Slowly going up from Kashgar in xinjiang china, the road is suddenly cut my an imposing range of mountains rising higher than 7000 meters… And suddenly the landscape become an incredible mix of ice lakes, snow cap mountains, rocks of different colors… and in the middle of this natural art piece, an incredibly good road is going all the way to pakistan…

On the side of it, we get to meet some han chinese worker who just arrived from their faraway provinces to work on making this road even better. For once, I wont add commentaries and let the images speak for themselves:

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