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 Day
01 You are met and
picked up at the Tuogart Pass on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan.
Further transfer down to Kashgar. Check in your hotel for night
Day
02 Do your last checking and preparation in
this city
Day 03 Drive along a part of the famous
Karakorum Highway until arrive at Subash, where your camels are
collected. Camp for night
Day
04 Start your trekking after breakfast and
it takes 5 hours to reach at the climbing Base Camp at the foot
of Mt Mustagh Ata. The distance today is about 4or 5 miles. Set
up your Base Camp here
Day
05 Explore towards climbing Camp One.
Day
06 Trek across Yangbulak Glacier to Kongur
Glacier. About 7 miles covered this day.
Day
07 Trek about 4 miles to Mt Kongur climbing
Base Camp (Mt. Kongur elevation, 7719 m.).
Days
08/10 Explore the area in the vicinity of Mt
Kongur and Mt Muztag Ata. This area is inhabited by nomadic Kirgiz
shepherds. Support transport provide by bactrian camels owned
by Kirgiz. Average elevation above 3500m.
Day
11 Trek 10 to 12 miles (mostly downhill) to
Kara Kul (on Karakoram Highway with a great view of Muztag Ata).
Day
12 Drive to Kashgar. Stop in oasis villages
along the way, where named Opal. Eat lunch there, a primarily
Uighur village.
Day
13 Visit Kashgar Sunday
Bazaar, one of the oldest and largest bazaars in Central Asia.
Over 100,000 mostly minority Turkic-Mongol Uighur people may attend
this bazaar to buy and sell livestock and goods. In the evening
we fly to Urumqi, capital city of Xinjiang, Province.
Day
14 Drive to a Kazak village on the south side
of the Bogda Massif (section of the central Tian Shan) and trek
into mountains. This area inhabited primarily by minority Kazak
shepherds who will be providing support transport with their horses.
There
will be time to visit Kazak families and their yurt homes as we
traverse this section of the range. First day trekking distance
around 5 miles.
Day
15 Trek around 5 miles up to a pass (around
3300 m) and camp near Mt. Bogda (5445 m). Horse herds may be seen
in the vicinity. Ibex and ovis poli may still inhabit the area.
There are some massive glaciers nearby.
Day
16 Free for exploring near the glaciers and
surrounding peaks.
Day 17 Complete traverse on range trekking
around 7 miles north and down to Heaven Lake. Camp near the lake.
Time to explore the pine-spruce forests and visit with Kazaks.
Day
18 Spend morning exploring. In mid-afternoon
drive back to Urumqi.
Day 19 Spend this whole day to relax. But
if you want to see how the Chinese people do their morning exercise,
you should have to get up early and to go to the Peoples¡¯ Square.
Then you will see: some people play Taiji Boxing, some people
play Beijing Opera, some people dance, some people play the Yang
Ge, a kind of traditional Chinese dancing ¡ After your breakfast
in your hotel, go and visit the huge, typical Xinjiang Bazaar.
Day
20 Fly Urumqi to Bishkek by XO717 at 08:05 am, All the services
end in the Chinese part. Our best partner, ITMC Tien-Shan will
take a good care of you in not only in Bishkek but all over Kyrgyzstan..
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