Saturday, June 16, 2007

Moving An Irish Pension To Australia

China: KKH: Lake Kara Kul Tashkurgan: from June 8 to 10

Central Asia is a region of the surprising diversity of its people both racially mixed and very different from each other. After Kashgar, Uighurs and China's, Lake Kara Kul, Kyrgyzstan is peopled with recognizable traits and Mongolian dress. Women are dressed in colorful robes embroidered son money, they are here very long braid down her back and necklaces of silver coins down along their backs. The men meanwhile wear sweaters embroidered with silver at the neck under a jacket, cap has replaced the young black and white top hat. As in Kyrgyzstan, these are horsemen and breeders, in addition to horses, cows, goats and yaks, they raise camels here and resistant to cold desert.


The Kyrgyz are stateless, they have no paper or Chinese Kyrgyz may circulate only in the region of Xin Jiang and can not leave the territory of China, due to not being able to go again .

is my first step on the famous Karakoram Highway, amazing road through the mountain of the same name and whose highest peak is K2 (8611m), second highest peak after Evrest.
It took close to four hours to reach this beautiful place surrounded by high hills and pastures dry, brown and ocher and finally the gigantic mountains which Muztagh Ata reached the 7543 m high.

At sunset on the lake front and a lovely yurt, suddenly, a camel caravan passes while the show is really wonderful and unforgettable.

The next morning we left for the glacier at the foot of Mount Muztagh Ata, near an altitude of 4500m, an impressive mass of rock and ice, the landscape is immense and we are alone in this immensity with the exception of a few marmots and ibex.


the road again the next day to Tashkurgan, the last town before the border, populated by Tajik, with European features, with clear skin, clear eyes so blue sometimes speaking a language close to the fa. Some say they are descendants of Indo-European peoples who invaded Europe, others that they are descendants of Alexander's soldiers, and others simply say they are Persian ... The next day, my two companions Korean and American, will be the other way to go to Beijing, I'm leaving alone This incredible route to Pakistan, back to the southern shore of Asia and closer to my goal.

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