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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Pamir Mountains in Xinjiang (China)
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Muztag ata as seen from Taskkurgan fort (China)
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Yaks being drive across a plain in western China (China)
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Abandoned government-built town in the desert of western China (China)
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Fisheye view of mountains in Xinjiang near the Karakoram highway (China)
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Glaciers near Muztaga peak (China)
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Traditional animal-skin yurt (China)
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Yurts in Tashkurgan meadow (China)
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Mountain peak near Tashkurgan (China)
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Brick home along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Uighur woman in front of her yurt (China)
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Tajik woman sitting on a bench in front of a shuttered window in Tashkurgan (China)
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Tajik women in front of their yurt at Lake Karakol (China)
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Pamir plateau mountains (China)
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Mountain peak near Tashkurgan (China)
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Camel and yurts on the shore of Lake Karakol (China)
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Abandoned government-built town in the desert of western China (China)
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Village and mountains on road to Datong (China)
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Pass in the Pamir mountains (China)
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Tashkorgan stone city (China)
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Karakoram Highway towards Tashkurgan (China)
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Tashkurgan fort in western China (China)
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Tajik elder (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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Girl working at a stand near a passport checkpoint on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Wet grassland in a high mountain valley along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Snow-capped peaks and glaciers in western China (China)
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Wall at Tashkurgan fort (China)
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Muztag Ata reflected in a turquoise lake (China)
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Mountains near Muzagata Peak (China)
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Yurts in Tashkurgan meadow in western China (China)
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Receding glacier in China (China)
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Peaks surrounding Karakal Lake (China)
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Imposing mountains of the Pamir Plateau (China)
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Tajik tombs seen from the Karakoram Highway (China)
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Mountain pass in western China (China)
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Yak traffic on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Sheep in Tashkorgan meadow (China)
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Fields near Tashkurgan - seen from the Karakoram highway (China)
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Tajik kids (China)
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Modern yurts dot a grassy meadow in Tashkurgan (China)
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Lake Karakol, meaning "black lake" in Tajik (China)
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Mountains in Xinjiang (China)
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Pass in the Pamirs in western China (China)
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Tajik tombs and cemetery (China)
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Sand covered mountains on the Pamir plateau (China)
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Camel in Xinjiang (China)
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Truck transporting coal in western China (China)
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Snow-capped peaks in the Pamir Mountains (China)
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Roadside stalls near a passport control point on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Tajik on horseback (China)
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Grain storage toward along the Karakoram Highway (China)
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Eagle statue in the center of Tashkurgan (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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High elevation waterway near the Karakoram highway (China)
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Karakoram highway as it winds through the Pamir mountains (China)
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Main drive in Tashkurgan (China)
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Karakoram Highway as it passes near Lake Karakol (China)
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Western China mountains (China)
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Sheep in Tashkorgan meadow (China)
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Tajik home along a highway in western China (China)
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Snow-capped peaks near Tashkurgan (China)
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Karakoram Highway (China)
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Tajik mud hut (China)
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Ash-covered hills in western China (China)
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Peaks above the Karakoram highway (China)
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Snow-capped mountains and glaciers near Karakul Lake in western China (China)
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Tajik homes outside of Tashkurgan (China)
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Tashkorgan stone city (China)
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Tomatos and chili peppers in Tashkurgan (China)
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Yurts in Tashkurgan meadow (China)
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Tajik cemetery (China)
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Tajik woman walking with goods for sale (China)
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Mountains near Tashkurgan (China)
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Tashkurgan, a Silk Road staging post. Its Uighur name Stone Fortress or Stone Tower (China)
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Uighur women standing in front of their traditional yurt (China)
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Leaving the Karakoram Highway (China)
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New-style yurts constructed of concrete and painted white (China)
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Herd of yaks along the Karakoram highway (China)
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High mountain peak in the Pamir mountains (China)
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Three Tajik men walking in Tashkurgan (China)
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Karakoram highway (China)
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Sand cliffs along the Karakoram Highway leading towards Pakistan (China)
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Wetland in western China (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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Princess Castle, a ruined fort at Tashkurgan (China)
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Pamir plateau mountains in Xinjiang (China)
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Uighur woman in front of her Lake Karakul yurt (China)
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Mountains near a high elevation wetland in Xinjiang (China)
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Mountain peak near the China-Tajikistan border region (China)
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Man with a sickle and a donkey (China)
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Uighur horsemen on a plain at the foot of Kongur montain (China)
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Ruins of Tashkurgan (China)
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Peaks surrounding Lake Karakal (China)
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Camel and goats in front of a traditional yurt near Lake Karakul (China)
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Snow-capped mountains near Tashkurgan (China)
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Pamir plateau landscape (China)
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Tashkurgan stone city in Xinjiang (China)
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Karakoram Highway towards Pakistan (China)
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Mausoleum near the ruined fort in Tashkurgan (China)
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Tajik children along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Tomb as seen through a hole in a wall at Tashkurgan (China)
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Government-constructed homes, since abandoned, in a western China desert (China)
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Cattle grazing in a meadow in Tashkorgan (China)
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Adobe homes in western China (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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Father and son on horseback on the shore of Lake Karakul (China)
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Tajik adobe hut (China)
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Rocky Tajik home near a high elevation grassland (China)
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Colorful doors in Tashkorgan (China)
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Sand dune in the Pamir mountains in western China (China)
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Sun setting on mountains east of Tashkorgan (China)
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Uighur man using mule power (China)
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Sun glinting off a snowy peak above Tashkurgan (China)
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Traditional yurts near Lake Karakul (China)
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Sand dune in a mountains pass on the Chinese Pamir Plateau (China)
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Moon at sunset above Tashkorgan (China)
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Pass in the Pamir mountains in western China (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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Government-constructed village on a sand desert in western China (China)
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Snow-capped mountains and glaciers behind Karakul Lake (China)
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Goats in front of a yurt (China)
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Mountains in western China (China)
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Yurts on a plain (China)
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Yurts on the shore of Lake Karakol (China)
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Tashkurgan with adjoining meadow (China)
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Marshy pass on the Pamir Plateau in western China (China)
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Sandy cliffs along the Karakoram highway in western China (China)
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Modern yurts in Tashkurgan meadow in western China (China)
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Rockslide across the Karakoram highway in China (China)
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Yurts with Pamir mountains in the background (China)
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Wetland in a pass in the Pamir mountains (China)
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Tajik Mausoleum in Tashkurgan (China)
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Kyrgyz or Tajik girl at a roadside stall near a passport control point on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Rocky mountain pass in western China (China)
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Karakoram Highway leading out of Tashkurgan (China)
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Tajik women in front of their tradtional yurt (China)
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Young girl posing for photo in Tashkurgan (China)
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Powerline running through remote western China (China)
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Truck overturned on a mountain road in Xinjiang (China)
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Light colored mountains (China)
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High elevation wetland near the Karakoram highway (China)
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Rocky mountains along the the Karakoram highway (China)
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Yak in China (China)
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Modern yurts along the Karakoram highway in western China (China)
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Camel standing in front of concrete yurts built bt the Chinese government (China)
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School in Tashkorgan (China)
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Lake near Lake Karakul as seen from the Karakoram highway (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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Truck in a gravel bed along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Vieled Uighur woman at Tashkurgan (China)
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Sand mountains of Xinjiang (China)
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Tajik village along road to Datong (China)
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Wall at the ruined Tashkurgan castle (China)
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Two girls sitting along the Karakoram highway (China)
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High elevation creek near the Karakoram highway (China)
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View of meadow and yurts from atop Tashkurgan castle (China)
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Karakoram Highway (China)
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Muztagh Ata Peak, Pamir, 7546m (China)
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Karakoram Highway towards Pakistan (China)
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Goats feeding in front of Kumtagh sand mountains in western China (China)
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Tajik temple (China)
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Mosque near Tashkurgan fort (China)
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Muztaga peak as seen from the Karakoram highway (China)
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Lake with Muztag Ata in the background (China)
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Tajik cowboy (China)
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Karakoram highway with a turquoise lake in the background (China)
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Glaciers in western China (China)
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Hills in western China (China)
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Tomb near Tashkurgan fort (China)
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Ruins at Tashkurgan fort (China)
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Tajik cemetery (tombs) in western China (China)
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Sand cliffs in western China (China)
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Muztag ata (Muztaghata) peak seen from the outskirts of Tashkurgan (China)
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Uygur boy on horseback at Karakul Lake (China)
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Young Tajik man (China)
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Tashkurgan fort, an important silk road trading point (China)
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Wall at the stone city in western China (China)
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Mountains and meadow outside Tashkurgan (China)
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Marshy pass in the Pamir mountains in Xinjiang (China)
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Adobe settlement along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Snow covered mountains near Muzagata Peak (China)
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Wetland in a Pamir mountain pass (China)
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Kyrgyz settlement along the Karakoram highway (China)
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National cultue and Art center in Tashkurgan (China)
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Uyger woman offering jewelry for sale (China)
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Glaciers in the Pamir mountains (China)
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Kids in Tashkurgan (China)
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Wall at the Tashkurgan Stone City (China)
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Mountain peak on the Pamir Plateau (China)
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Tajik cemetery in Xinjiang (China)
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Sheep in Tashkorgan meadow (China)
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Rocky hut (China)
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Muztagata seen from a distance to the southeast (China)
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Kyrgyz Boy on horseback (China)
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High elevation grassland near the Karakoram highway (China)
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Solar-powered yurt in western China (China)
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Yurts in western China (China)
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Chinese girl and boy working at a stand near a passport checkpoint on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Tajik woman with son in front of her yurt (China)
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Modern yurts along the Karakoram highway in China (China)
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Adobe huts in the Pamir mountains (China)
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New yurts (China)
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Rocky terrain along the Karakorum highway (China)
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Tajik women at work on the farm (China)
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Door in Tashkorgan (China)
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Lake Karakol yurt (China)
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Children walking to school in Tashkurgan (China)
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Biofuel (China)
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Man riding bicycle in Tashkurgan (China)
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Line of modern yurts in western China (China)
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Tajik cowboy (China)
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Young Uighur man with his motorcycle (China)
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Tajik territory in western China (China)
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Uighurs driving a donkey cart on the Xinjiang highway (China)
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Tajik home (China)
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Sheep in theback of a truck in Tashkurgan (China)
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Worker tents in China (China)
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Woman stitching in yurt (China)
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Sand cliffs along the Karakoram Highway (China)
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Welcome to Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County (China)
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A bumpy road in western China (China)
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Yaks on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Camel between a traditional yurt and a modern yurt at lake Karakul (China)
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Pamir mountains (China)
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Sand dune among mountains in the Pamir Plateau (China)
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Yurt (China)
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Karakoram Highway following a shallow river (China)
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Traffic on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Boy pumping water as his mother washes, Tashkurgan (China)
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Modern yurts along the Karakoram highway in western China (China)
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Tajik women along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Tashkurgan, as seen from the ruined Princess castle (China)
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Tajik cemetery in western China (China)
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Bus on the Karakoram Highway (China)
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Door in Tashkorgan (China)
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Village along road to Datong (China)
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Sand dune in the Pamir mountains in Xinjiang (China)
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Tajik man riding a donkey (China)
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Tajik cowboys on a grassy plain (China)
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Icy mountains peeking through the clouds (China)
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Tajik farmers and their grass-laden donkey (China)
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Mud hut in Tajik region of China (China)
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Leaving the Karakoram Highway as day breaks (China)
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Tashkurgan fort with shadowed mountains in the background (China)
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Clouds at sunset in Tashkurgan (China)
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Woman offering jewelry for sale at Lake Karakul (China)
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Rocky mountains in western China (China)
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Pass in the Pamirs in Xinjiang (China)
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Herd of yaks along a creek in Xinjiang (China)
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Door in Tashkorgan (China)
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Tajik tombs (China)
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Children on the shores of Lake Karakol (China)
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Tashkurgan town, near the meadow (China)
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Pamir plateau mountains in western China (China)
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Door in Tashkorgan (China)
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Driving sheep in western China (China)
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Mechnical facilities in western China (China)
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Stone home near Lake Karakol (China)
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Turquoise waters of Lake Karakul (China)
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Uighur man driving a donkey cart (China)
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Three kids in Tashkorgan (China)
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Desolate landscape along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Mountains west of Tashkurgan (China)
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Interior of a yurt (China)
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Fruit stand in Xinjiang (China)
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Uyger home constructed of stones (China)
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Grassy wetland off the Karakorum highway in western China (China)
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Tajik woman standing at the base of Tashkurgan fort (China)
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Tashkurgan ruins (China)
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Overturned construction truck in China (China)
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Modern yurts along the Karakoram highway in Xinjiang (China)
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Man riding a donkey in Xinjiang (China)
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Kids walking to school along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Camel along the Karakoram highwau (China)
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Brown door (China)
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Pamir mountain region in western China (China)
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Fisheye look at a grassy hill in eastern China (China)
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Grassy wetland off the Karakorum highway (China)
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Tajik girls walking along the highway (China)
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A big problem: flipped truck in China (China)
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Turquoise doors in Tashkurgan (China)
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Truck overturned on a mountain road in China (China)
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Tajik boy on horseback (China)
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Karakoram Highway (China)
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A group of yaks walking on the Karakoram highway (China)
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Karakoram Highway looping near a lake in Xinjiang near Lake Karakul (China)
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Herd of yaks at the foot of mountains in the Pamir Mountains in Xinjiang (China)
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Modern yurts constructed by the Chinese government (China)
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Solar-powered stone house in remote China (China)
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Tajik kids playing on the shore of Lake Karakol (China)
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Uighur men securing logs to a donkey cart (China)
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Tajik home in westerm China (China)
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High elevation wetland near the Karakoram highway (China)
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Tashkurgan town center (China)
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Facilities in western China (China)
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Chinese girl and boy working at a candy and soda stand along the Karakoram highway (China)
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Visible from Lake Karakul, the highest peaks are Muztagata, Kongur Tagh and Kongur Tiube. (China)
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Tashkurgan meadow (China)
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Street in Tashkorgan (China)
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