We are crossing China with an overlanding group for the next month. In China, as a foreigner, you are not allowed to drive your own vehicle alone so you have to hire a government-approved tour guide to guide/escort you throughout the country. Since that can be quite expensive to hire a guide, we have a big group of travelers all splitting the cost of a guide. We will cross from the Kyrgyzstan/China border to the China/Laos border in the next 30 days. If everything goes as planned, we will enter Laos on our 2nd wedding anniversary, October 3rd :)

Our group at the border:

Construction road:

Mat and Chichi

Watermelon time in a blizzard on the top of the pass: