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Karakoram Highway photos

These " Karakoram Highway photos " were taken during my 2006 trip to China.

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Tajik village along road to Datong

Leaving the Karakoram Highway

High elevation grassland near the Karakoram highway

Wetland in a Pamir mountain pass

Karakoram highway with a turquoise lake in the background

Mountain peak on the Pamir Plateau

Mountain peak near the China-Tajikistan border region

Ash-covered hills in western China

Western China mountains

Mountain pass in western China

Mountains in Xinjiang

Wetland in western China

Powerline running through remote western China

Roadside stalls near a passport control point on the Karakoram highway

Truck transporting coal in western China

Colorful doors in Tashkorgan

Main drive in Tashkurgan

Three kids in Tashkorgan

Wall at the stone city in western China

School in Tashkorgan

Two girls sitting along the Karakoram highway

Goats feeding in front of Kumtagh sand mountains in western China

Kyrgyz settlement along the Karakoram highway

Yurts in western China

Government-constructed homes, since abandoned, in a western China desert

Government-constructed village on a sand desert in western China

Tajik home along a highway in western China

Yurts on a plain

Tajik mud hut

Tajik cemetary (tombs) in western China

Tajik cemetary in Xinjiang

Kyrgyz or Tajik girl at a roadside stall near a passport control point on the Karakoram highway

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