We worked our way out of the city and onto a highway that runs from Kashgar all the way through to Islamabad in Pakistan. Yet again we started in the flat fields before mountains rose up in front of us, and we started to climb. This time the rock face was brightly coloured, mainly red from deposits of iron ore. Hassan told us that some companies had started to mine the rock for the iron content, leading me to wonder if I could find a client here to give me an excuse to come back. The landscape was barren in way that reminded me of Tibet, although the one difference was the existence of more water. Streams and rivers ran through the rocks, water from melting snow at the top of the mountain peaks.