Trek Tour around Mt Mustagh Ata

Come up to the Torugart Pass and cross Kyrgyz-Chinese border. Our guide will meet you and transfer you further down to Kashgar. Check in your hotel. - - - Hotel

Start from Kashgar by bus and climb up to the Chinese Pamir along the famous Karakorum Highway until arrive at the end of the road – to the place named Tangge. But before arriving at Tangge, you will have to climb over the highest pass in this day.

That is Subash Pass, which is about 4900 meters above the sea level. In the late afternoon, you may arrive at a village where named Xindi. Then you will see camels are waiting for you here. After setting up your first camp nearby a clean stream, our Chinese cooks will provide a tasty Chinese Food as your dinner.

Distance by driving today is about 300 km and altitude at your first camp site is about 3200 meters above sea level.

B - D Camp

After a good breakfast, your camel drivers start to load up your equipment on camels and then your first trekking day starts. Today is a short trek day especially organized for acclimatization training.

Your second camp site will be located at a beautiful and green grass land. A clean stream is located nearby. Our cooks will provide you another delicious dinner here.

Trekking distance today is about 10 km. Average altitude is about 3700 meters above sea level.

B - D Camp

After good sleeping last night, you will start your trekking again. Today you arrive at a new place where named Langar.

It takes you at least 6 hours trekking today to arrive at your third camp site. Altitude is getting higher (4000 m) and green land is far behind you.

B - - Camp

Start to climb again up to the Chechelik Pass which is 4543 meters high. The camel trail goes higher and higher and finally disappeared into clouds. On the top of this pass the temperature is much lower.

After lunch here, the trail approaches into flat locality and finally you get your camp site, where the local people call it as Chechelik. A big mountain range stands in front of you. This is another pass that is called Yango Pass, which is 4827 meters above the sea level.

B L - Camp

Continue your trekking up on the snowy slope. This pass looks more exciting and more difficult.. When you arrive on the top of this pass, a beautiful blue lake appears into your eyes which is lied down quietly on the other side of the pass, surrounded by snow covered mountains.

When you reach the lake, you will find that water from this lake is very cold. Then trekking down the slope for 2 hours to put a camp in the place called Yanbulak.

B - - Camp

This is a good place for sightseeing in the area. There are some local yurts setting down on the grassland to have a rest day here. B - - Camp

After one day sightseeing around this beautiful grassland, you will have to continue to climb up the last pass named Turbulung Pass on this trekking trail. This pass is 4370 meters high.

After several hours trekking on the Turbulung Glacier, you will reach the top of the last pass and then go down until reach at the Turbulung river. Your camp site today is just by this river.

B - - Camp

Continue your trek in this valley. This is easy day, no more big passes and mostly going downwards.

The camp site today is at Takedjialu place. It takes only 5 hours to finish this distance between Turbulung and Tekadjialu valley.

B - - Camp

Move in this Turbulung pasture until reaching at the Kangxiwa River. The camp site today is at a place called Tukuzbluk.

A huge mountain appears into your eyes on the way - that is Mt Mustahg Ata on the Northwest slope. The glacier at the foot of this peak looks whiter, cleaner and much bigger.

B - - Camp

This is the last trekking day. The trail will be easier but still keep going up. In the late afternoon, you might arrive at a big village called Subash.

The Karakul Lake suddenly appears into your eyes again. Find a good place and set up your last camp. Altitude here is about 3600 meters above sea level.

B - - Camp

You can say “Good-Bye” to your camel crew and leave for Kashgar. Lunch stop is at a place named Wupa village. Arrive at Kashgar in the early afternoon and overnight in hotel. B L - Hotel

It must be Sunday today. Sunday is bazaar day in Kashgar, site of perhaps the largest and longest running bazaar in Central Asia. As many as 100,000 people come in from surrounding areas to buy and sell animals and goods. Early in the morning you can see streams of people in donkey carts coming in to market.

There are separate areas for animals, furniture, fabric, clothing, shish kebobs, shaves with a straight razor (including scalp), fruits and vegetables, and much more. In the animal bazaar care needs to be exhibited as horses and donkeys are being test-driven. Also in the animal bazaar you can find cattle, sheep, goats, and camels - all in a fairly small, walled-in area.

When you are in the midst of all this, you may feel like you have stepped back in time several hundred years.

After breakfast you will be free to roam the bazaar or to go along with a guide who will translate Uighur for you. Stay in your Hotel.

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Breakfast and transfer to Torugart Pass on the border and say Good Bye to your Chinese team. Meals will depend on departure flight time - - -