Day Two: The approach to the Heavenly Pass.
Over the Pass and now traveling the Qyzylorda Valley. It's the highest “valley” in Asia: over 4,000 meters! This is a frozen lake. The English explorer Robert Conway disappeared into those mountains seventy years ago.
After two day’s difficult travel we have reached Hotan. We will rest here for a day. Hotan has quite a history. According to al-Biruni, an 11th-century Arab scholar and scientist, this was the city of the so-called Stone Tower, where the Roman geographer Ptolemy said Western and Chinese merchants met regularly in the first century to exchange goods.
Day Two: The approach to the Heavenly Pass.
Over the Pass and now traveling the Qyzylorda Valley. It's the highest “valley” in Asia: over 4,000 meters! This is a frozen lake. The English explorer Robert Conway disappeared into those mountains seventy years ago.
After two day’s difficult travel we have reached Hotan. We will rest here for a day. Hotan has quite a history. According to al-Biruni, an 11th-century Arab scholar and scientist, this was the city of the so-called Stone Tower, where the Roman geographer Ptolemy said Western and Chinese merchants met regularly in the first century to exchange goods.
Wave at me if you see a girl on a purple Yak.
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Makes me want to change my request for a cabana boy to one for a Sherpa.
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