Karakoram Highway
Blog post and photographs by Peter Hemenway
The main highway is from Abbottabad in Pakistan and goes to Kashgar, the border town in China.
The trip I made started in New Delhi and completed about 10O km from Kashgar. I made this trip by bicycle and the last 100 km to Kashgar there was snow.
The mountains and people were often amazing to see.
As a teenager I had read about the Hunza people and their apricots that were part of their diet.
The Soviets invaded Afganistan in the 1979-89 and this resulted in a large refuge crisis in Pakistan.
I had visited Peshawar are at that time and before that made a trip over the Kyber Pass.
The natural beauty of both countries was what struck me. Pakistan nature seemed to have a wildness that was almost frighting. The nature was different energy than Nepal.
The actual trip started in New Delhi, India and then to the Pakistan part of Karakoram to just about to the China border.
World cyclist Philip Stanworth admiring a view at the end of a day
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