In Upal. There are no words to describe how awkward I feel right now, but I did get stared at less.
In Upal. There are no words to describe how awkward I feel right now, but I did get stared at less.
Photo 2 of 76 from The Karakoram Highway.
Featured in Xinjiang:
The cities of Central Asia possess a forbidden draw—we desperately want to go to Kabul and Islamabad, although safety and sanity dictate otherwise. I hope that someday we won’t think twice about packing our bags for Afghanistan or Pakistan, for now we will have to settle for getting tantalizingly close, just across the border in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.