I’m in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, in North-West China, famous for its wonderfully preserved Ancient City Walls. Or rather, about to become famous, as the Ancient City Walls are still under construction. They’re coming along well, and in just a year to two I expect the tour guides will be enthusiastically showing […]
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Kashgar: Ancient City Walls
May 14, 2015
Tibet: Everest Base Camp
October 28, 2014
Tibet has been on my target list for many years. I finally made it! I took the train in from Lanzhou to Lhasa and then overlanded out to Kathmandu, with a short detour to the Chinese Everest Base Camp, up at 5180 meters (16990 ft). We drove up from Shegar and got to EBC shortly […]
Hong Kong’s Dark Tower
May 14, 2008
Hong Kong’s Dark Tower is one of my favourite buildings. It is officially called “2 International Finance Center”, but that seems very poor camouflage for such a mighty command post, obviously destined for World Dominion. I find it both wonderfully elegant and distinctly sinister. I particularly love the claw-like fingers gently cupping over its peak. […]
Karakoram Highway & Khunjerab Pass
May 3, 2008
Kashgar, April 30th 2008 The only road between China and Pakistan is the Karakoram Highway (KKH) which goes over the 4730 m (15,500 ft) Khunjerab pass at the border. It is a spectacular journey, over a wild road, across the Western edges of the Himalayas. The pass is closed in winter and nominally reopens on […]
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