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Take a scenic road trip along dramatic Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway is a 1,300 km national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.
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Take a scenic road trip along dramatic Karakoram Highway
PAKISTAN // Steeper, more jagged and more densely packed than its Himalayan rival, northern Pakistan's Karakoram range gets our vote for the world's most dramatic, with over 20 peaks scraping the clouds over 7500m (24,600ft; including the world's second-highest peak, K2). Cutting right through the heart of these mountains is the astonishing KKH, an incredible feat of engineering that links the Pakistani capital at Islamabad with the Uyghur city of Kashgar in China's far-western Xinjiang region. The 1300km (800-mile) drive takes you through the sublime valley of Hunza and the witch-hat peaks of Gulmit, then over the 4714m (15,465ft) Khunjerab Pass to the Tajik fortress town of Tashk.