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📍 Panlong Ancient Road | Kunlun Mountain "Electrocardiogram" 3000-4216 altitude 639 curves ✔︎ Today, after walking through all curves, life is a smooth road 📍 Pamir's Eye | Entering the deep eyes of the earth - a spectacle hidden in the depths of the plateau - Pamir's Eye 👀 This is probably the Pamir Plateau Shock and oppression ～🩵 Baisha Lake ｜ Blue Tears on the Pamir Plateau 🔵 Half pale white sand, Half a blue lake water 🔵 This is the "Baisha Lake" in Aktau County, Kezhou (picture 1-6) 🩵 Karakule Lake ｜ Blue Diamond under Moustag Peak 🔵 A cockroach on the Pamir Plateau in southern Xinjiang Yuan Mingzhu 🔵 It guards the Moustaq Peak from afar. (Figure 7-9)

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📍Panlong Ancient Road | Kunlun Mountains &quot;electrocardiogram&quot;
3000-4216 altitude, 639 bends✔︎
Walked through all the bends today, and life will be smooth from now on

📍Eye of the Pamirs | Enter the deep eyes of the earth
A wonder hidden deep in the plateau-Eye of the Pamirs👀
This is probably the shock and oppression of the Pamir Plateau~

🩵White Sand Lake｜Blue Tears on the Pamir Plateau
🔵Half pale white sand, half blue lake water
🔵This is the &quot;White Sand Lake&quot; in Akto County, Kezhou (Figure 1-6)

🩵Karakul Lake｜Blue Diamond under Muztagh Ata Peak
🔵A shining pearl on the Pamir Plateau in southern Xinjiang
🔵It guards Muztagh Ata Peak from a distance. (Figure 7-9)

The Pamir Plateau is the center of Asia and Europe.
Geographically: Located in the southeast of Central Asia and the northwest of Xinjiang, China, it is a huge mountain knot where the Kunlun Mountains, Karakoram Mountains, Hindu Kush Mountains and Tianshan Mountains meet, spanning China, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries.
&quot;Pamir&quot; means &quot;Roof of the World&quot; in Tajik. Isn&#39;t the roof of the world the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? The average altitude here is about 4,000 meters, and the area is about 148,000 square kilometers.
Pamir has bred a large number of glaciers, snow-capped mountains and lakes. There are Muztagh Ata Snow Mountain, Kongur Snow Mountain, Kongur Jiubie Snow Mountain, Karakul Lake, Baisha Lake and other lakes in my country.
The Pamir Plateau is a must-pass route on the Silk Road. Historically, the Kushan Empire, the Arab Empire, Mongolia, Britain, Russia and other countries have successively controlled it.
The Pamir Plateau is mainly inhabited by nomadic peoples such as the Tajik and Kyrgyz and their branch tribes, and has intangible cultural heritage such as the Tajik funeral customs, the Tajik yak carrying sheep, and the Tajik eagle dance.

The natural landscapes of the Pamirs include the Muztagh Ata Glacier Park, the Karakul Lake Scenic Area, the Kezhou Glacier Park, the Golden Grassland, the Karakul Lake, and the Taheman Wetland. Among them, the Muztagh Ata Peak is known as the &quot;Father of Icebergs&quot;, and the Kongur Peak, Kongur Jiubie Peak, and the Muztagh Ata Peak are world-famous peaks and the highest peaks on the Pamir Plateau.
&bull; The cultural landscapes include the Stone City, the Khunjerab Pass, the Panlong Ancient Road, and the first stop for Tang Monk to return home, etc.

The Pamir Plateau is a very unique place where numerous mountains, glaciers, snow-capped peaks, lakes, wetlands and rivers converge. It is known as the source of all waters. Along the kilometer-long river valley is a long scenic belt, which is very charming.

Be sure to visit the Pamir Plateau once in your lifetime to feel its unique charm and endless style. Moussatag Peak: known as the &quot;father of glaciers&quot;, snow covered all year round, majestic, is the most beautiful scenery on the road of friendship between China and Pakistan, and is also a place for mountaineering enthusiasts; Gonger Peak and Gonger Jiube Peak: Adjacent to Moustag Peak, the altitude is more than 7,000 meters, the mountain is steep, the mountain is covered with ice and snow all year round, and the sun shines with charming silver. There are also beautiful lakes Baisha Lake, Karakul Lake and Bandier Lake. The lake is clear like a mirror, and the blue sky and white clouds reflect it. The unique Muji crater is the only high-altitude crater in Xinjiang. It is distributed with 13 craters, overlooking from a high altitude, like the eyes of Pamir. The colorful Yadan landform formed by wind erosion is more beautiful, like a beautiful earth art picture. The stone city on the north side of the Tajik Autonomous County of Tashkurgan is a famous ancient city site on the ancient Silk Road. The terrain is steep and you can think of the ancient country. If you have the opportunity to go to Tajik villages, experience local life, experience the hospitality and unique folk culture of the Tajik people firsthand, and appreciate the traditional Tajik architecture, as if you are crossing time and reliving the traditional charm. Before heading to the Pamir Plateau or returning, you must visit the ancient city of Kashgar, which has intricate lanes and exotic architecture with a wide range of styles, and can taste the rich national customs and historical heritage. When we drive on the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, across the Pamir Plateau, the scenery along the way is very magnificent, one side is cliffs, the other is the alpine canyon, you can enjoy the snow-capped mountains, grasslands, lakes and other landscapes. Of course, the most memorable, and the most exciting is Panlong Ancient Road, this net red road, just 30 kilometers, the altitude from 3,000 meters steeply rose to 4,200 meters, there are hundreds of curves, like a black dragon winding the mountain, driving experience is thrilling and exciting. It is called: today has walked all detours, and life is smooth from now on!

Go! Go to the southern Xinjiang! Upper Pamir Plateau! More romantic than the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, more extreme than the western Sichuan, this life is not disturbed. There is a plateau, it is the westernmost end of the Chinese map. Going west again, you will go out of the country, there are Tajikistan and Afghanistan, the veritable western world. Compared with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, this plateau is more remote and less visited by people, geographically and psychologically. It is far from the sky and the earth, infinitely vast, but has exhausted the imagination of the world for thousands of years.

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