Timetable for Karakoram Highway
23 - 27 June | Islamabad. |
28 June | Islamabad -Taxila |
29. June | Taxila - Haripur |
30. June | Haripur - Abbotabad |
1. July | Abbotabad - Cuttar Plain |
2. July | Cuttar Plain - Thakot |
3. July | Thakot - Pattan |
4. July | Pattan - Dassu |
5. July | Dassu - Gilgit. . I actually took a bus for 200 km from Dassu till Gilgit, but this was because the country was on the brick of war with India, I didn't knew anything, saw huge convoys of army trucks and everyone told there would be war soon. In the press club in Islamabad all the journalists also believed in war during my visit there. |
6 - 12 July | Gilgit. I was sich for one week, but was lucky to be at a very nice hotel. |
13. July | Gilgit - Ghulmet |
14. July | Ghulmet - Karimabad |
15. July | Karimabad - Gulmit |
16. July | Gulmit - Sost |
17. July | Sost - Checkpoint Sleept there. |
18. July | Checkpoing - Crossing the actual border to China. Camped in the middle of nothere. |
19. July | Camp - Tashgurgan. 100 km headwind. |
20. July | Tashgurgan - Camp on road near Mt. Mustagh Ata |
21. July | Camp - Mustagh Ata Base camp |
22. July | Trek to camp 1 and back to base camp |
23. July | Base camp to Hotel next to Kara Kul lake |
24. July | Kara Kul,ill, Foodposining from Base camp |
25. July | Kara Jul - Kashgar. 197 km trip that day. some 14 hours. The thought about a shower was the key. |
26 - 29. July | Kashgar. |
30. July | Kashgar - camp in desert 90 km that day. |
31. July | Camp - Yeching. 165 km |
1. August | Yeching - camp in the desert 74 km |
2. August | Camp to camp in the mountains. 58 km |
3. August | Camp to broken bridge 3 km! |
4. August | Bridge to Yeching with bus. Met two Russians who walked though the mountains. They told that Three bridges were gone, that 100 m. sections of the road were gone, and that they had risked their lives for crossing this section on the mountainsides. Was told that it would take up to 30 days to make the road accesable!!! |
5. August | Yeching. Time to think. |
6. August | Yeching - Sugan. Want to try one of the small roads into West Tibet |
7. August | Sugan - sideroad.- Sugan. Road leads to nothere according to locals. |
8. August | Sugan - Yuian by bus |
9. August | Yuian - Nurlangar. Duststorms and flooding. Even locals cannot cross this sideroad. |
10. August | Back to Yuian.My plan is now to go to Golmud |
11. August | Bus to Minfeng |
12. August | Long bustrip to Qiemo. |
13. - 16. August | Qiemo. Stomac problems -> no bus! Told that The road to Golmud is blocked by....FLODING. Too much! |
17. August | Bus to Urumqi |
18. August | Still on Bus!! Turning into a killer trip. |
19. August | Arrives in Urumqi after 54 hours in bus. Crossing directly through the Taklamakan desert on a HIGHWAY! Trip supposed to take 32 hours, but...floding and a engine breakdown. |
20 - 23. August | Urumqi. Resting and thinking what to do now. |
24. August | Fly to Guangzhou near Hong Kong |
25 - 30 August | Hong Kong/Macau |
31. August | Fly to Kathmandu |
1. - 5. September | Kathmandu |
6. September | Fly back to Denmark |