Echoes from the Karakorum

It was around 9 pm in mid-June when I found myself wandering through a border market in Tashikurgan Tajik autonomous county of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Here, where the borders of China, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan converge, snowcapped peaks of the Pamir Plateau loom in every direction. Though night was near, the sun still cast a golden light on the mountains, and the market buzzed with life.

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