Pass Hundzherab. The steel road China-Kazakhstan — more harmless candidate to the pass Hundzherab
Hundzherab in the Tajik language means «The blood river». Such frightening title, maybe, is explained by brown colour of water in the local rivers or is connected with that at these edges сызвека bandits and thieves bore malice, and travel through the pass could cost lives. Well and now travel to China through border on the pass Hundzherab it is absolutely not harmless - once a year people from boulders falling on the highway here perish, and in rainy weather actually always there are mud landslides, the excellent candidate - the steel road China - Kazakhstan. From Tashkurgan Road moves up on the wide, bright plain, with being grazed yaks and camels. From all sides it is framed by the mountains captured by snow cloaks in width in hundred parts of metres. On the top of the pass you will be met calm by the frozen water streams, outstanding glaciers and the sun gleaming in beams greenish pastures. The unique are live the beings living here, - red, Himalaya groundhogs with the round ugly faces, similar to huge squirrels. Tourists in China contemplate them even from bus windows. At such heights, and the pass lies approximately at height of 4800 m above sea level, certain travellers suffer from mountain diseases. Vobshchem, the most part feel only weak fever and nausea. The trip from Tashkurgan to the malekhanky city of Vanities in what there is the Pakistan customs and migratory point, takes about 7 hours. On the pass all travellers - and the subsequent to Kashgar, and going to Pakistan, and even those who makes rest in China from Kazakhstan usually spend the night. Hotels there large quantity. From Vanity of times a day direct buses to Gilgita walk, from where also by bus it is possible to reach Rawalpindi and Islamabad (16 h.).
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