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Khorog to Layangar
A fantastic ride down the Pamir Highway, it's amazing all dry fast dirt, with a welcome in every village. The scenery is indescribable if you ever get to choose a road to ride then ride this one. Stopped off to visit Yamchun fort it's three or four miles off the road up a goat track, from the top you get to see Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the Hindu Kush just a magic place. There were a couple of offs nearly including me when we hit a patch of deep sand I can still see the bow wave of sand from the front wheel luckily it straightened itself out before I hit the floor. On checking into the local home stay we started to hear rumours about the road being closed; Kevin did a recce of the situation and sure enough about five miles up the road from the home stay there was a 40 metre hole in the road with no prospect for fixing it. So it looks like we'll have to turn around and return to Khorog Oh dear! we'll have to ride all the way down the Pamir again such a pity.
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