2500 km landscape photography

"Pamir" means "roof" in Tajik. The ancient Silk Road once passed through here. Like the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is a bitter and cold plateau and a fascinating place.

It is barren, fertile, barren, livable, harsh, warm, disgusting and charming. It drains your imagination and makes you suddenly enlightened inadvertently.

On the Silk Road, the Pamirs is an eternal coordinate.

The Silk Road in China is divided into North Road, Middle Road and South Road. When this road extends westward, the middle road and the south road meet on the Pamirs, which is also the most dangerous and mysterious section of the whole Silk Road.

Alexander didn't cross the Pamirs, which made Europeans always have a beautiful fantasy about the silk-producing East. In Geography written by strabo, an ancient Greek scholar, the journey from Stone Town to Luoyang was recorded.

/kloc-more than 0/000 years later, Kyle Poirot boarded the Pamirs and recorded a secret, cold and beautiful world in Marco Polo's Travels:

..... so high that people think it is the highest place in the world ... This plateau is called Pamir, and it has been riding on it for twelve days, but there is no vegetation and people, only wasteland. ...

1, mysterious mountain

Kunlun Mountain is pregnant with myths.

In Shan Hai Jing, Kunlun Mountain is the most mysterious scenery.

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Kunlun Mountain, which runs through the western territory of China, is a mountain system with the highest average elevation and huge extension area on the earth. It starts from the eastern Pamirs in the west, traverses Xinjiang and Tibet, and extends to Qinghai, with a total length of about 2,500 kilometers.

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Is a veritable ancestor of Wanshan, King of Mountains, the real backbone of China.

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"Father of Icebergs"-Mustag Atta

Its mountain looks soft and thick, almost in the shape of a perfect round bowl. It stands on the top of the mountain and is the most important landmark of Pamir.

Among the snow-capped mountains over 7000 meters above sea level in the world, Mustag Atta is the easiest to climb. Every climbing season, the Bulunkou meadow at the foot of the peak is crowded with climbers.

2, the thrilling road

One of the "Top Ten Steep Roads in the World"

-karakoram highway

Karakoram highway is also a China-Pakistan friendship highway. The lowest elevation in China is1154m, and the highest elevation is 4733m. It passes through the Karakorum Mountains, the Hindu Kush Mountains, the Pamirs and the western end of the Himalayas.

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It stretches for 4 16 km from Kashgar to Hongqilafu. The peaks stand tall, there are snow-capped mountains everywhere, the lakes are beautiful, the beaches are criss-crossed, and the plateau scenery along the way is infinite.

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Xuanzang's Journey to the East-Tasha Ancient Road

Master Xuanzang described the Tasha ancient road like this:

There are Qingshan and Dongshan in the east, dangerous peaks, caves and valleys; The stream path is dangerous, and the snow is one after another. From the jungle to Wuqing, the journey is more than 800 miles.

Wuqing County is now shache county, and Tasha Ancient Road is a magical secret passage preserved for thousands of years in southern Xinjiang, with a total length of nearly 420 kilometers from Tashkurgan County to shache county and along Tashkurgan River in Kunlun Mountain.

The wild Qiang River meanders and nourishes Datong Township on both sides. Apricot flowers in early spring are dotted among canyons, surrounded by flowing water in villages, and the ancient roads are colorful.

Recently, the Panlong Ancient Road, which became popular on various platforms, is located in Waqia Township, Ta County, Kashgar City, Xinjiang.

It is said that it has 208 bends, many of which exceed 180 degrees or even reach 270 degrees. Like the huge Youlong, it hovers on the Pamirs at an altitude of about 4 100 meters.

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The perfect combination of dark asphalt pavement and colorful mountain, as well as the continuous snow-capped mountains in the distance, constitute the "electrocardiogram" in Kunlun Mountain.

The Pamirs not only has the mysterious legend of Kunlun Mountain, but also has the fusion and intersection of Central Asian civilizations, which is both ice and snow and full of vitality.

The vast Tashkurgan, the hidden city of the sky, the melodious Gulibita and the tenacious Pamirs are all here, waiting for you.

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