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Crossing Irkeshtam Pass from China to Kyrgyzstan

China-with-Children-Irkeshtam-Pass-ChinaAs we left Kashgar for Osh in Kyrgyzstan I expected a long but fairly uneventful travel day. The reality didn’t deviate too much from my expectations but even with that the experience couldn’t have been further from mundane.

It started when the Chinese taxi driver dropped us at the China-side border post. The broad two-story building looked like an architectural joke, like someone had been designing a building for downtown Urumqi and then, on a whim, had placed it instead in the mud on top of a mountain pass.

The soldier gating the entrance checked out passports and waved us inside. That was Passport Check #1.

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