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About Me (1)
After Return (1) Australia (7) Before Departure (4) Bhutan (1) Cambodia (5) Continuing (3) India (4) Laos (4) Malaysia and Singapore (2) Nepal (7) Netherlands & Belgium (3) New Zealand (7) North America (5) Pakistan (7) South Pacific (3) Thailand (6) Turkey (4)
Recent Entries
* A Last Taste of the Subcontinent: Amritsar and Delhi
* A Passage (Back) To India: Chitral-Peshawar-Lahore * Gilgit to Chitral: High Adventure on the Shandur Pass * Last Stop North: Passu and Surroundings * Hunza: The Heart of the Karakoram * Rawalpindi to Gilgit on the Karakoram Highway
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May 28, 2005A Last Taste of the Subcontinent: Amritsar and DelhiMy return to India snapped me right back into the differences between that country and Pakistan. I had to bargain for several minutes for the rickshaw ride back to the bus stop, and fend off several taxi drivers at the...Read this update May 16, 2005A Passage (Back) To India: Chitral-Peshawar-LahoreChitral was similar to Gilgit in that they were both the regional centres for large, remote areas of northern Pakistan. That was more or less where the similarities ended, however. Gilgit, occupying a spot on the well maintained Karakoram Highway,...Read this update Gilgit to Chitral: High Adventure on the Shandur PassI was happy to be back in Gilgit, and especially happy to be back at the Madina Guesthouse, whose staff and owner made the otherwise pleasant-but-boring town a great place to be. My first order of business was to sort...Read this update May 14, 2005Last Stop North: Passu and SurroundingsPassu is the farthest north I got in Pakistan, sitting barely 100km from the Khunjerab Pass and the border with China. It's a quiet little town, but has started to see some tourism activity in recent years due to the...Read this update May 12, 2005Hunza: The Heart of the KarakoramThe title of this entry is perhaps a bit misleading. It would probably be fairer to say that Baltistan, in Pakistan's northeast corner is the TRUE heart of the Karakoram, since it contains four of the five 8000m peaks in...Read this update May 09, 2005Rawalpindi to Gilgit on the Karakoram HighwayThe Karakoram Highway was constructed in a ten year period from 1969 to 1979. It links Pakistan with western China and is one of the true engineering marvels of the world. The KKH (as it is commonly known) covers some...Read this update |
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