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On my second day in Kashgar I discover, to my surprise, that behind the brutal concrete hotel in which IContinue Reading
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On my second day in Kashgar I discover, to my surprise, that behind the brutal concrete hotel in which IContinue Reading
We are at the end of the Karakoram Highway, on the rim of the Taklamakan desert and in the greatContinue Reading
It’s a strange and rather spooky bus ride from Tashkurgan to Kashgar along the Karakoram Highway on the roof ofContinue Reading
Ancient sources about the Silk Road mention a mysterious place, “The Stone tower”, which was a midpoint between China andContinue Reading
The road onwards from Gilgit is narrow, boulder-strewn and treacherous. The bus got cancelled so I took off in aContinue Reading