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Peshawar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Peshawar, Pakistan
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Up the Khyber Pass!! Oohh!
This is a top pick! ... came up (4am - Ramadan) and we had to get an early bus up to the mountains! Even though there weren't that many women around I loved Peshawar. They have great peanut brittle and chicken qorma. I'd like to come back and buy some dangly, sparkly ...
Jihad and the Left Hand of God
This is a top pick! ... to it and put your trust in Allah" (8:61). On top of all this, Russia is funding terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to militant newspapers in Karachi. Iranian Shi'a groups are funding the Shi'as and Saudi Arabi is encouraging ...
Ramadan Begins
This is a top pick! ... , and the calls to prayer. That maghrib, when the orb disappeared, the mosque muezzins sung the call for salat throughout Peshawar, capital of the Northwest Frontier Province. "God is great, God is great. Muhammad peace be with you. ...
A Fortress with One Clear Gate
This is a top pick! ... farmland, then tan plains with villages and farmland, then views of distant brown mountains and increased urbanization--approaching Peshawar. The roads reminded me of American highways and we were approaching 100 kilometers per hour, something I ...
Up The Khyber..
This is a top pick! ... and around the Khyber Pass. For centuries the Khyber Pass has divided and linked empires and peoples, marking a frontier between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia. In safer days it was also part of the original overland route (or hippy trail) from ...
Bloody Hell !! We're Not In Kansas Anymore Toto..
This is a top pick! Hello from Peshawar, Pakistan.. I should start this travel pod with thanks to Allah for seeing us safely into Pakistan. You see we had an emergency landing after taking off from Bahrain on our way to Peshawar. Apparently our cabin had failed to ...
The Pass
This is a top pick! ... we decided to have a proper walk around the town. We found the gold bazaar, which lead us to the oldest and biggest mosque in Peshawar. The Mahabat Mosque. Homies came over as usual to talk, but we were on a mission. We moved through the bazaars and came ...
A bus, and the stunning town of Peshawar
... supper with us). We finally shifted the policeman by promising him Joanna's (Miss RD to some people) hand in marriage. Peshawar is the most outstanding, colourful and friendly city we have visited to date. Mainly consisting of Afghan tribes people who ...
Pakistan - The tribal area
The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group of the Hindu Kush, settling in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalash language, a member of the Dardic family. There is some controversy over what defines the ethnic ...
How to get a Chinese Visa for Dummies
... of the destinations in Central Asia I would have liked to add in my trip. Some possible itineraries could have been Pakistan -> Afghanistan -> Tajikistan -> Kyrgyzstan -> China, or Pakistan -> Afghanistan -> Tajikistan -> Uzbekistan ...
Peshawar
... guns. Some stats say that the town of Darra hand makes 300 guns a day that get distributed to the tribal areas between pakistan and afghanistan. what fun! I went to the "smuggler's bazaar" this afternoon and as promised, it's a bunch of people hanging ...
Refugees from Afghanistan
7-10 Dec 80 Ayun to Bumburet to Rumbar, Kalish 'infidels'. Vividly memorable. The got Pakistn Airlines flight from Chitral to Peshawar. Free thanks to my RNAC Capt. crew ...
Fascinante Peshawar
... fugiés afghans et d'autres personnes déplacées par des opérations militaires et les troubles dans les régions environnantes. Peshawar est le principal centre éducatif, politique et économique de la province. Les rues de la vieille ville de Peshawar ...
Peshawar, au coeur de l'intégrisme musulman
continuons vers le sud, le long de la frontière Afghane, jusqu'à Peshawar. région nord-ouest, est tout spécialement Peshawar, est décidément plus intégriste que le nord-est. Ici, fini les femmes non voilées et la Burka est très à ...
Lawless Frontier
... . I had just read in a magazine article about this border that, and I quote "the most dangerous place on earth - Pakistan's Pashtun tribal belt which straddles the border with Afghanistan - is about to get more dangerous". This was directly referring to ...
L'art de la peinture sur camion
... part, car elle celle qui protège. La peinture sur camion est une véritable tradition ici. On ne voit que très rarement un camion 'nu'. Cet art n'est pas unique dans le monde, mais il n'est nulle part aussi répandu et vivant qu'au ...
Peshawar
October 2, 2007 Peshawar, Pakistan We paid 190RP for our train tickets to Peshawar. That's $3.17 for both of us. It wasn't as nice as the train from Lahore to Rawalpindi but it got us here. The trip only took a bit over 3 ½ hrs. If you are ...
Peshawar
... Most invaders (Greeks, Persians, Mongols, Moguls, Brits...) came painfully through this area at some point. Consequently, Peshawar's history has always been strongly linked with the fortunes of Afghanistan/India but to a larger extend the Middle ...
Khyber Pass
... about the most exciting and historically significant overland route into Afghanistan. Started at 8am, and the local government in Peshawar refused to issue the armed guard that is supposed to accompany us through the Pakistani tribal areas en route to ...
The North West Frontier Province
... journey took me down the motorway, past rows of tanks in a big military base and into the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), to Peshawar near the Afghanistan border. It was good to see the others again and catch up on the days I'd missed. They were in ...
Up the Khyber Pass
This morning we picked up our armed guard and drove up the Khyber Pass. The scenery was lovely, but it was the whole idea of it that made it such a magical experience. The armed guard was quite sweet, but it was a bit disconcerting when his rifle was ...
Lahore to Peshawar
... from Lahore to Islamabad this morning, met up with my guide - Dost Dar - and my driver - Shabir - and drove to Peshawar. Yet more endless, flat countryside. Peshawar is choked with traffic and people. It's where all goods enter and leave Pakistan ...
Up The Khyber!
... out so we said we had a reservation at a hotel and it still took about 10 mins to politely refuse their invitation to dinner. Peshawar was great, we went on a trip up the Kyber Pass to the Afganistan border - I thought we would be in a jeep but we ...
Hash and carpet shopping
... hygiene, bad food and poor transport system worn me out. So, it was beautiful while it lasted, but I am glad to leave Pakistan! Peshawar in an exotic and extremely friendly city. I particularly liked the bazaar and the warm welcome from its locals. Two ...
Rawalpindi/Islamabad/Lahore/Peshawar
A few pics from cities of Pakistan....we did not take many pics but here are a ...
Peshawar
... . However, the reason for spending lots of money on making your vehicle colorful, but also significantly heavier and aerodynamically less efficient, is still unclear to me. If Lahore is a cultural centre of Pakistan, Peshawar is its pearl of street life. ...
Peshawar
... in fibre which usually means Weetabix or Shredded Wheat for breakfast. I did think that my chances of finding any food like that in Peshawar were nil but (unbelievably) I managed to get some Weetabix, when I walked into this shop and saw it on the shelf I ...
Good shot (history culture 101)
With a quiet sigh of relief I arrived to the relative safety of Pakistan and did what any insane man would do: I headed to the barbers and had my Taliban beard shaved down to a Pakistani mustache. It's not quite Merv, certainly not Adolf, but ...
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