My wife and I recently (May 2016) made this trip to Tashkurgan from the Khunjerab Pass and since I had a lot of difficulty getting updated and real information about this border crossing, I decided to post this in the Forum to provide updated info to help fellow travelers. Ask me questions if you still…
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We had planned to stay in Tashkurgan for 2 nights to get acclimatized to high altitude, and to meet & get to know some Tajik Ismaili’s, before crossing overland into Pakistan via Khunjerab Pass. However, we found out at last minute that the border crossing is closed on weekends, and so we had to reduce…
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We left early the next morning (7:30AM) from Kashgar, to drive to Tashkurgan. Both cities are in Xinjiang province, China. The road from Kashgar to Tashkurgan and onwards to Islamabad, Pakistan is called the Karakorum Highway (KKH). The KKH is supposed to be a very good tarmacked 2 lane road built by the Chinese over…
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The Id Kha mosque was built in 1442 and has been repaired/renovated and fixed up many times over the years (see plaque). The mosque can hold 10,000 worshippers at a time. The mosque building itself is small (several hundred worshippers); but the grounds of the mosque are huge, and there were mats that get rolled…
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Like Turpan, Kashgar is one of the few oases in this part of China where the Silk Road Caravans stopped along their journeys. Kashgar especially, became a big trading center where Tajiks, Khirgiz, Khazaks, Uzbecs and other Europeans and Persians traded in this oasis stop on their way to and from China Kashgar was a…
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