The Silk Road

Hong Kong & Macau
Back to HK. Reason: renew our visas. Hong Kong la nuit , view from Victoria Peak.
The Star Ferry. Sunset from Kowloon. Advertising Macau. Guess which is its main industry... Old church burnt at the portuguese style.
Xian
Muslim town , Xian. Still intact , unlike the rest of the city. First sights of what will be the cuisine from here to the west.
Gansu province
Typical tourist attraction in western china: Budhas and caves. This ones , Bingling Si , Lanzhou. The way to the caves... by boat. Jiayuguan. Here finishes the great wall.
Jiayuguan fort, the last chinese outpost. Beyond this , the wild west. Mogao caves , an artistical pre-islamic treasure. Photos inside are strictly forbidden. Forbidden picture.
Dunhuang dunes under the moonlight. To arrive here we had to dig a hole under the fence... because there is a fence all around the desert so you have to enter thought the gate and pay the fee!!!! Crazy! This picture is not any joke. The road is long long long.
Turfan
Exploring the desert like a real adventurer. City mosque. If you want to take a good pic here , come in the morning. Uyghur food market. Cuisine becomes more and more suitable for our tastes and our genes: kebabs , bread , meat cakes!
Also our empathy level with the local people grows.... ... while chinesse continue being themselves. The track is long long too...
Kuqe
Donkey-car parking Donkey-jam
You're kidding , this is Greece! Another lost city
Kashgar
Old streets.Old town.
Detail of the Abakh Hoja mausoleum Dealing in the carpets bazaar Small mosque , one of hundreds... ... and the big mosque: Id Kah.
Karakul Lake
En route again. Tajik woman behind. Engine failure...   Local making bussiness.
Awake in the lake. Breakfast with the local Kyrgyzs. Stuning views....
Yougurt time at town. Camel ride. Or it was a horse? Sin palabras.
The Karakoram Highway
Tashkurgan , the last town in China. Four hours in customs! The road is long and there are obstacles... but the driver never stops!
Overbooking in the bus.   Celebrating Pakistan border. Khunjerab pass. Emphaty levels with the pakis skyrocketed. This time is a flat tire...
Hunza Valley. Pakistan.
Sunny morning in Passu. New friends on the flower-truck Karimabad
Hunza Valley. The best we've seen on this trip. And the best people around us.
Segregated sits for women in a festival. A glacier whose name I forgot.
Lady Finger peak is unmistakable. Paki truck , paki style.
By Carles & Angels . OCT '03