Chinese Newspaper's Remotest China Travelogue

Familiar with the Wakhan corridor?

Yeah, likewise. It's the mountain pass that links China with Afghanistan, and you'll find it outside the provincial town of Tashkurgan. The new Chinese English-language daily Global Times has a long feature article, with photos, called Silk Road Lost & Found about China's extreme southwest.

Tashkurgan County runs along the Chinese borders with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. As the article notes, "Tashkurgan is not your typical tourism destination: It takes at least 14 hours and 3,000 yuan to get from Beijing to Tashkurgan county town via two local flights and a local bus."

Judging from the map, that local bus just might set out from Kashgar, and we'll have photo coverage of Kashgar here on CS&W in just over two months time, as we'll be traveling there to have a look at the famous Sunday market, and then move on over the Torugart Pass into Kyrgyzstan.

(Map from Global Times.)

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