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| Our itinerary so far (overview) |
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| Our itinerary so far (detailed view) |
We are in China!!!! Jippiiiiehhh!!!
Pauli repeats: Chiiiiinaaaa, Mama, Chiiinaaaa!!!" :-))))
We have made it across the border. On time.
We pass two Kyrgyz checkpoints and four Chinese checks. The night before we park right in front of the Kyrgyz border controls at 3600 m, together with a lot of other trucks. The night gets freezing cold, must be somewhere around minus 15 degrees, our windows have ice coverage inside and the diesel in the cans is frozen next morning.
The Kyrgyz officials say good bye with some last shows of what they do best: exercising corruption big style. In the morning, long before the borders opens, one policeman walks down the row of trucks to collect money from everyone. Not from us though.
Border control is nasty as usual, but goes on pretty quick, at 10.30 h after driving some 10 km through no mans land across the Turgart pass we stand in front of the gate to China. Finally, how exciting, we have made it until China!!!
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| Just behind Turgart Pass: First impression of China. Landscape wise little difference to the last 200 km in Kyrgyzstan ;) Simply Beautiful! |
