18th of September:
The road we are driving is quite good. The street is financed by a Chinese import/export Bank. Some parts are still under construction and of course a Chinese and not a Kyrgyz company is building here. The Chinese build the street for "free". That means they get the right to dig for natural resources in Kyrgyzstan and at the same time they can use this street to bring a lot of their products in the country. Dozens of Chinese trucks are on this road. Apart from this we get to see a landscape which looks like in a theatre. Sometimes it looks like a collage of three different landscapes. And each landscape is printed on a big paper wall and set one behind the other on the stage. In front green canyon, behind some small mountains of 3000 m height and behind some rough/sharp mountains made of rock without vegetation but some snow with more than 3000m. We are coming closer to the Pamir. I was really looking forward to come here, which is like one high light of this journey.
We arrive in Sary Tash fill up again all tanks with Diesel. In Tajikistan the Diesel price will be 5 times higher than here, at least in the Pamir. In Sary Tash it is already quite cold 3000 plus meter high. Out of the village on the Pamir valley we find a nice sleeping place with a view on Peak Lenin which is almost 7000 m. In this landscape we still have 3G Internet connection, sending our last messages from this amazing place in Kyrgyzstan. Tomorrow we will start to Tajikistan which is from here only a few kilometres.
(N 39.64032°, E 73.23988 °)
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