Xinjiang border permits: where you need one, and whether foreigners can get one
Tashkurgan, Baihaba and parts of the Kanas region sit inside border control zones. Getting in requires a border permit — and the route differs sharply by passport.
Tashkurgan, Baihaba and parts of the Kanas region sit inside border control zones. Getting in requires a border permit — and the route differs sharply by passport.
This is the detail most likely to derail a trip on arrival. Plenty of perfectly good hotels cannot legally register international guests — book the wrong room and you cannot check in, however nice it looks.
“Overseas Chinese” is not one traveller type. A PRC passport held abroad, a foreign passport, an HK/Macao/Taiwan document — each changes which routes you can take and what paperwork is needed.