Pamir Plateau Travel Guide!!!
Itinerary
DAY1⃣️
📍Kashgar (depart at 10:00)
📍Oytag Glacier Park (arrive at 12:40, depart at 13:50)
🗻Altitude: 2804
🎫: 45 + shuttle bus 6 yuan
📝: On the way, you will see beautiful snow-capped mountains surrounding you. After arriving at the scenic area, take a shuttle bus to the foot of the mountain. To climb further, you need to walk another 1-2km. (If you plan to visit Kanas later, you can skip this part)
📍White Sand Lake (arrive at 16:02, depart at 16:40)
Half vast white sands and half clear blue waters, it's like a fairyland.
🗻Altitude: 3300
🎫30/person, yak🎫: 30/person
There are free attractions to see, and you can also ride a yak along the lake for a scenic journey.
📝: There are many small flies on the yaks, but don't worry, they don't bite and will follow you after the ride
📍Karakul Lake (arrive at 17:43, depart at 18:20)
🗻Altitude: 3600
🎫45/person
📝: There are beautiful plank roads, and you can see the Mustagh Ata peak, which is very stunning, but due to the high altitude, it is not recommended to ride horses
📍Mustagh Ata Peak (arrive at 18:50)
🗻Altitude: 4000+
🎫40/person, shuttle bus 50/person, 20 minutes by car, then a walk of about 1 kilometer.
📝: The park closes at 18:00, we arrived late and only took photos from outside. Self-driving friends should set off earlier
🥹At this time, I was seriously suffering from altitude sickness in the car, and the photos were taken by a friend
📍🏠: Checked into Taxkorgan at 19:47
The sunset is super beautiful, and you can enjoy a steaming hot pot.
It's quite cold at night, it's recommended to wear long-sleeve pajamas and pants, and wear a fleece-lined jacket when going out
DAY2⃣️
📍Depart from Taxkorgan at 10:00
📍Pass by the Wakhan Corridor
📍Panlong Ancient Path
11:00-13:10 (we might have run a bit fast)
🗻Altitude: 3000-4300
📝: Have breakfast before setting off. Prepare motion sickness medicine, altitude sickness medicine, and oxygen bottles, as there are over 600 turns on the way🥹
📍Bandier Blue Lake (Xia Ban Di Reservoir)
Arrive at 13:50, return at 15:00
🗻Altitude: around 3000
The weather is super nice and the scenery is super beautiful! There is a path below, you can walk to the lakeside
🚗: Return trip
Return to Kashgar via the G314 national highway, passing by Mustagh Ata Peak and White Sand Lake.
📝Tips:
①High altitude can cause altitude sickness, so keep your movements small and prepare oxygen tanks before setting off, as they are quite expensive in the scenic areas
②Bring a sports watch/pulse oximeter to monitor your condition in real-time and go to the hospital if you feel very unwell!
③Prepare food, as when traveling in Xinjiang, you're usually on the road
④Bring warm clothes, as the temperature can drop to as low as 6℃ at night
The scenery of the Pamir Plateau is infinitely worth a visit! This road is snowy mountains, glaciers, grasslands, cattle and sheep, camels, deserts, and lakes under the blue sky and white clouds! And Xinjiang specialties are so fragrant! Great beauty Xinjiang! ! !
The ticket office can ask a tour guide. First, the sand plate in the ticket office will explain the entire terrain and surrounding attractions to you. After entering the stone city, you will be explained to you. However, I feel that the content of the explanation is not too much. If you join a group, you can also. If three or two, it doesn't feel necessary.
There are oxygen cylinders sold at the ticket office of the scenic spot, and there is no need to buy them at all. Most people have no reaction at this height, and the oxygen cylinders they sell are so expensive. There is yak beef hot pot opposite the price is very high.
Also, it feels that the tickets are still a bit expensive, the scenic spot is particularly small in the off-season, and it is still very good to walk around. The core area of Taxian County is not very big, and there are one-stop places to eat, drink and live nearby.
The Pamir Plateau has always felt like a place that is out of reach, but I didn't expect it to come. The average altitude is more than 4,500, and the hotel sleeping in the county at night is more than 3,000 meters away, but I am very happy that there is no altitude sickness this time. When I first entered the plateau, I was really excited. The scenery along the way was exactly the same as I imagined. Most of the mountains above 6,000 meters in the world are here, and the deepest lake is 286 meters. It can be imagined how clear it is.
Go! Go to the southern Xinjiang! Upper Pamir Plateau! More romantic than the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, more extreme than the western Sichuan, this life is not disturbed. There is a plateau, it is the westernmost end of the Chinese map. Going west again, you will go out of the country, there are Tajikistan and Afghanistan, the veritable western world. Compared with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, this plateau is more remote and less visited by people, geographically and psychologically. It is far from the sky and the highlands, infinitely vast, but has exhausted the imagination of the world for thousands of years.
On the 94th day of the poor tour of China, the Pamir Plateau Pamir Plateau is Persian, meaning flat roof. The Han Dynasty of China was proportionate to the green onion, and the ancient Silk Road passed here. The Pamir Plateau spans southwest China's Xinjiang, southeast Tajikistan, and northeast Afghanistan. It is a huge mountain knot at the intersection of Kunlun, Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Tianshan Mountains. Most of the people who went to Pamirgao's original tours went to Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County (referred to as Ta County) in the northeast. There are Baisha Mountain Baisha Lake Scenic Area, Stone City Site, Mustag Peak (father of icebergs), Hongqilafu Port (China's only land port to Pakistan), there are also China-Pakistan border pillars 7 and spectacular national gates. Of course, there is also a very important place to check in. First sell a Guanzi ~ after entering the mountain, the first attraction is Baisha Mountain Baisha Lake. White sand mountain is also called "Xiangsha Mountain", the mountain is Brunkule Lake in front of the mountain, the mountain is ChaClark Lake, the water and grass are fat, the blue mountain is covered by white sand, half covered, and the snowy mountains on the top of the mountain and the lake under the mountain together, forming a group of beautiful pictures! Tashkurgan Stone City is one of the three most famous stone cities in the history of China. More than a thousand years ago, the people of the country of Selekur built it in 120 days. There has been prosperity and war. It stands on a large rock, at the foot of the Aral grassy beach, where the Tashkurgan River runs by. More than a thousand years ago, the Tajiks had no advanced tools, but they completed the grand and magnificent project of the Stone City in a very short time. Yesterday I had gone to the port of Ilktan, and this time I did not go to the port of Hongqila. 1. The beautiful snowy mountains on the Pamir Plateau 2. Entered the mountain 3. Baisha Mountain and Baisha Lake, at an altitude of 3663 meters 4. Baisha Mountain and Baisha Lake Group Figure 5. Stone City, about 3,000 meters above sea level 6. Stone City Inner City Site 7. Stone City Group Figure 8. Aral Cao Beach, also known as Jincao Beach 9. Modern people built with stones in the scenic area Living, living people!
When I first entered the Pamir Plateau, I felt the yellow sand, all over the Gobi, desert and desert beaches, desert and desolate. But after slowly entering, it was found that the ecological environment on the Pamir Plateau was extremely rich, and various plants and animals were also rich in variety, and even videos of eagles flying soaring. The snow-capped mountains melted water throughout the year, pouring out a large area of natural pastures, cattle and horses, especially herds of yaks, were strong and fruitful. The green grass, the middle pond was covered with microwaves, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds, and snow-capped mountains, which were like dreams.