"Panduo country is more than a thousand miles away on Tuesday. The capital of the country is based on Dashiling, and it is backed by many rivers. It is more than 20 miles away... respecting Buddhism, there are more than ten Jialan temples, five hundred monks, learning the Hinayana There is a department for teaching and teaching.” —— Xuanzang·Bianji "Da Tang Western Regions" Volume 12
The Pantuo Kingdom, today the Stone City of Taxkorgan, is the first country where Master Xuanzang entered the current territory of our country after studying in the East. The master recorded the country’s legendary founding story in the book: Once upon a time, a Han princess married a Persian prince, and when she came here, she encountered a war, so the princess was placed on a solitary peak and strictly protected by soldiers. Three months later, the war subsided, but the princess became pregnant for no reason. The maid said that there was a man who rode a horse from the sun to meet the princess every day at noon. The team that had no choice but to send off their relatives had no choice but to stay on the spot, build a city on the top of the mountain, set up official positions, and formulate laws and regulations. Look up at the stone city built by the Tajik ancestors on the top of the mountain. Walking into the city, the battlements, parapets, turrets, dish holes and the gate in the northeast corner are still well preserved, and residential buildings, government offices, shrines and kitchen pits can be seen faintly. Looking far away, surrounded by snow-capped mountains, there is a large golden grass beach under the city.

The Taxkur Gan River meanders through the golden grass beach, and the sun shines down. The branches of the rivers spread throughout the grass beach, reflecting patches of silver light. The golden grass beach, yellow dandelions, snow-capped mountains in the distance, white clouds and blue sky blend together. Like a dream, it makes people linger and forget to return.

The Pamir Plateau, like a piece of pure land independent of the world, quietly guards the westernmost end of the great eastern country. Pamir, the roof of the world that I have heard of since I was a child, has finally come to its side now. The beauty of the plateau is at your fingertips.

Walking in the vast and vast Pamir Plateau, where the sky is high and the earth is far away, in the vast valley surrounded by continuous towering snow-capped mountains, it seems that time has stood still. This precipitous silk road, passing through deserts, crossing the Gobi, crossing dangerous mountains, and wading through rapid waters has been a thousand-year-old silk road. The world has longed to be walked here time and time again.

Under the glaciers and snowy ridges, the river water nourishes a large grassy beach, which is the Taheman Wetland. The long and narrow yellow-green wetland has low and dense grass. Judging from the pan-alkali-white riverbed, the grass must be vigorous salty grass.

Karakul Lake leans quietly under the Muztagh Peak, the father of icebergs, like a shining mirror inlaid on the Pamir Plateau. This mountain lake is not the kind of thrilling beauty, but subtle and peaceful. The need to savor the beauty slowly.

"Journey to the West" is great, it gives us a vision of nature. The scenery in front of me is the "eight hundred quicksand realms, three thousand weak water depths. Goose feathers can't float, and reed flowers sink at the bottom", Bajie fights against Liusha River, and Mucha is enlightened to Baisha Mountain and Liusha River.


D10. Kashgar - Baisha Mountain, Liusha River, Karakule Lake, Muztag Peak. Suta County

D11 Tower County - Stone City, Jincaotan, Muhammad Mazar (not open, under repair). Kashgar