Karakule Lake

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4 nights in city we were ready to leave.

Alim arrived with driver 9:30 saturday morning to guide us south, at various check points & his paperwork's gets us waved through, the first section is 200km highway to Karakuli lake and a Yurt stay, very popular with tourists in region.



With 80km of roadworks, where locals are building a new road some of it on 50m stilts to level gradient, which does avoid river when it floods, but I would prefer to maintain hairpins bends in an earthquake zone.



Karakuli lake is a nice setting at 3600m, surrounded by 3 mountains all over 7500m, was bit cloudy, but U just wat to take better photo, so took all day to arrive there. The Yurt was nice, with thick noodle supper. Restrained myself from following the local bikers up tracks to view a glacier, must be few glaciers to see.

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Photos

Harley in dry river wash
No bridge, river will flow across old highway.

New G314 road construction
50m stilts to carry road across valley, fantastic construction by Chinese engineers.

Blue lake - idyllic scene.
A new resovoire, can see old rad and bridge vanish.
Local vendors were bit keen, I had to run away!

Muztagata from 20km
First view of this impressive mountain.

Muztagata still 5km away
At 7550m just big lump.
Locals wanted to take up to glaciers on bike.

Karakuli lake
With three high peaks surrounding it, Kongur, Kongur tobe, & Muztagata on right.

Karakuli Yurt
Can just see the owner by door, she wore a face mask whole time.
Locals in this area from Kyrgyz, was confused by ethnics of area, this is border between the Russian empire and Pakistan & India.

inside yurt
Was a steel frame yurt, but well carpeted out, with a warm stove, we slept on karimats to get off floor.

Noodles
With 4 pieces of Yack meat, was OK.
Our driver on left, Alim the guide opposite and Italien push biker rider on right.

Looking back to Karakuli lake
Tremendous mountains.

Farming
Took PIC for tractor rolling on crop on RHS, round & round towing small roller, to mush up crop?
But farm house is also interesting to see, with mountains in background.