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March 06, 2008
The Stone City
I'm just back from a short trip with my brother, Aaron, to Kashgar and up into the Pamir Mountains. I'd visited Karakul Lake two years ago, but this is the first time I made it all the way to the Stone City at Taxkorgan, where I captured the panorama above. Located near the Chinese border with Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot known about the ruined fortress... nevertheless, I can assure that it's one hell of an impressive site.
Click on the photo above for a higher resolution panorama.
posted March 06, 2008 at 10:32 PM unofficial Xinjiang time | HaoHao This!
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That's some great Photoshopping.
Wait...you mean that's real?
One more place to visit before I die, I guess.
The comment above was posted by Jess Nevins at March 6, 2008 11:37 PM unofficial Xinjiang time.
This place looks like that fortress of Taliban prisoners revolt, where American taliban John Walker got caught.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1680506.stm
American, stay clear those fortress and muslim fighter. They might make into another `taliban fighter' ;p
The comment above was posted by IC at March 7, 2008 04:15 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
I can't really find a point of reference for its size. About how tall and wide was it?
Looks great regardless. Good photo.
The comment above was posted by Tiako at March 7, 2008 06:23 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
@Tiako: If you look at the front of the fortress, there are a few telephone/electric poles which should give you an idea of the scale. I'd say the length of the Stone City is around maybe 200 meters, but that's just a guess.
The comment above was posted by michael at March 7, 2008 07:43 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
That city inspires me to return to China for a visit along the border.
The comment above was posted by Jer at March 7, 2008 09:36 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
I was there in early October, but your photo is awesome!
The comment above was posted by Broadsheet at March 8, 2008 02:09 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
That's really cool. Maybe if I decide to make the move to Xinjiang next year I'll take a trip out that way.
The comment above was posted by ChinaMatt at March 8, 2008 10:36 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
can you go inside the stone city? is it a tourist trap now? do people still live in there?
The comment above was posted by dezza at March 8, 2008 12:28 PM unofficial Xinjiang time.
@dezza: You can walk around and climb up onto the Stone City. It's surrounded by a wall and barbed wire fence, but there are plenty of gaps and no one seemed to be collecting an entrance fee even at the front gate. My friends and I were the only people visiting all day, although I'm sure there's more visitors in the Summer. So, no, it's not a tourist trap.
No one lives in what is essentially a big piles of mud and rocks, but the Stone City is located right on the northeastern corner of the modern town of Taxkorgan, about a 15 minute walk from the center.
By the way, if any of you are fans of the "Kite Runner" movie, you can see a lot of the shooting locations within a hundred meters of the Stone City. Everything else is located in the old parts of Kashgar.
The comment above was posted by michael at March 9, 2008 08:26 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
Hey how do we know this isn't a postcard you bought up there? Come clean Manning. Did you use any photoshop tools on this photo or pay some poor Tajik a few kuai to claim the rights to his photo? Where's the signature head shot of M&M in front of the scene?
The comment above was posted by ouyang at March 10, 2008 07:57 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
@ouyang:

The comment above was posted by michael at March 10, 2008 10:29 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
In his book, News from Tartary, Peter Fleming talks a little about the history of Tashkurgan. Fleming waxes lyrical about it, but when I visted some 66 years later, I wasn't impressed with the place.
The comment above was posted by Richard H at March 11, 2008 07:28 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
@Richard H: Sure, there's a modern little Chinese town in Taxkorgan with some typical Chinese flavor, but how could you not like the place? It's surrounded by surrealistic jagged snow-capped peaks and the fortress lies smack in the middle of a valley straight out of 'Lord of the Rings'? I thought the place was great... although the food was meh.
What were you expecting?
The comment above was posted by michael at March 11, 2008 08:36 AM unofficial Xinjiang time.
How long did it take you to get there from Kashgar?
Did you hire a driver? How much?
The comment above was posted by Danny at March 13, 2008 12:18 PM unofficial Xinjiang time.
@Danny:
The bus from Kashgar short-distance station (duantu keyin zhan) costs 51 yuan to get to Taxkorgan and takes about 6 hours... don't forget to bring your passport to get through the checkpoint! The return bus, oddly, is about 60 yuan.
There are long-distance taxis available that cost somewhere between 80 and 100 yuan for the trip and probably get there in about 4 hours. I'm not sure how much a roundtrip tourist trip leaving Kashgar in the morning and returning by evening would cost... probably somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 yuan would be my guess.
The comment above was posted by michael at March 14, 2008 04:23 PM unofficial Xinjiang time.
Wow. That is awesome. With the mountains in the back. And I am shocked someone is not making money of entry fees of that place. Guess not enough people go out there...yet?
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That is a very impressive fort. It looks like they built the hill besides the actual fort. Must have took alot of manual labor and time.
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