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Distance Km |
Km markers |
Info |
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0 |
562 |
TO from the southern route |
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1 |
561 |
Gas station, water |
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12 |
550 |
Restaurant |
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|
16 |
546 |
Well, two houses, stream |
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|
21 |
541 |
Compound, rest, hot, |
35-60 lots of ups and downs |
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|
55 |
507 |
5-6 rest, car rep |
flatter after 60 |
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|
89 |
473 |
TO to melon plantation (?), rest, car rep. |
Bonzai like trees after 80! |
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|
146 |
416 |
Restaurant, friendly! |
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|
184 |
378 |
Worker's camp |
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|
216 |
346 |
Spread out shops, mostly Uighir. |
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|
223 |
339 |
Chinese modern shop, very friendly! |
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|
224 |
338 |
TO and powerline |
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|
226 |
336 |
Gas station, water, shops hot. Avoid last on the right=rip off! |
More hills again, some steep up to 9% |
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|
243 |
319 |
TO #40 something. |
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|
245 |
317 |
RCC |
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|
254 |
308 |
Mini solar power plant, unmanned. |
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|
273 |
289 |
RCC |
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|
281 |
281 |
RCC |
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|
293 |
269 |
Mini solar power plant, unmanned. |
Less bumps |
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|
328 |
234 |
Mini solar power plant, unmanned. |
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|
331 |
231 |
Two barracks, unmanned. |
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|
367 |
195 |
Mini solar power plant, unmanned. |
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|
375 |
187 |
House, cold drinks, water, prob hot and rest. |
Very flat |
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|
405 |
157 |
Mini solar power plant, unmanned. |
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|
408 |
154 |
Two barracks, unmanned. |
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|
415 |
147 |
Big cluster of barracks |
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|
443 |
119 |
Settlement and factory. Nothing |
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|
445 |
117 |
TO asphalt road. |
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|
456 |
106 |
Unmanned baracks TO to oil rig |
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|
470 |
92 |
Melon sellers in sheds, water |
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|
476 |
86 |
Chin rest+gh W side, uighir rest E |
Cotton fields, irrigation |
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|
478 |
84 |
Factory compound |
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|
480 |
82 |
Mini solar power plant, unmanned. |
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|
483 |
79 |
Tarim river |
After the city, lots of turn offs, rests, |
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|
485 |
77 |
Tarim city, everything, gas station |
water, sports fishing(!) Etc | |||
|
519 |
43 |
TO petro china HQ |
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|
521 |
41 |
rest, shops, hot |
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|
525 |
37/125 |
TO go straight for direct route to Korla |
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|
545 |
105 |
hosp, melons, rest, shops |
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|
550 |
100 |
rest, melons |
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|
640 |
10 |
crossroads, water in houses |
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|
650 |
0 |
Entering 314 HELL |
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|
651 |
-1 |
gas station, cold drinks, snacks |
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|
653 |
-3 |
Transport hub, hot, shops, rest. |
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Altitude: |
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Count on dropping approx 100 meters/100km until midway. After that it's almost completely flat. |
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The route:
Flat and in many ways easy. I can imagine it's killer in summer, when water
consumption must be extreme. It is always easy to flag down trucks to get water
and we never carried any huge amounts. NO shade for long distances, exposure to
the sun and possibly monotony is the worst factors. It is a strange feeling to
be in the heart of a great desert and being able to travel on perfect asphalt
without any hassles. The people in the restaurants along the way are amazed by
what you're doing and very friendly. So are the truckies and believe it or
not, the prices along the way is low, basically the standard you expect to find
anywhere in the more populated areas of the country.
Graph:
I didn't bother to make a graph showing the topography along the way -
it's flat!