With a day off in town, while our guides were finalising our Chinese registration and drivers licences (even though we were leaving the country the next day), I took a day the update the blog while Ghighi took a walk…
Into Western China, the start of the Silk Road trail
Crossing into China became something of a nightmare immediately on arrival. The security and bureaucratic procedures here are absolutely insane and over-the-top. A few hundred metres after the relaxed Pakistani border guard who didn’t even check our passports, just wanting…