Stretching more than 800 miles from Kashgar in China’s western Xinjiang region to Abbottabad in Pakistan, the Karakoram Highway is the world’s highest transnational roadway and a testament to modern China’s determination to shape and contain nature’s most daunting obstacles. Completed in 1979, the roadway’s official objective was to foster trade between Beijing and Karachi, but, unofficially, it was also to sweeten a marriage between two allies united in their enmity for India.

Since 1986, when it was opened to the public, the highway has provided access to a mesmerizing slice of Chinese Central Asia, a high-altitude melting pot of seminomadic tribes who share a landscape of harsh but breathtaking beauty.

Thus, it should not shock our dear readers that The Velvet Rocket staff felt that no visit to Xinjiang would be complete without a run south down the Karakoram Highway (also known simply as “the KKH”) toward Tajikistan and Pakistan…

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