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Pakistan Slideshow
Pakistan
Travel Blogs from Pakistan
Punji Pass Day 4 and a return to Gilgit
This is a top pick! ... talks to us on his aims to set up a country, Balawaristan, as a solution to the regional land ownership disputed between Pakistan and India. A wonderful contrast of looking at something then occurs. Martine, who is a Social Worker, says how nice that ...
Pakistan Ends
This is a top pick! Once again, we were on a mission. This time to Islamabad to pick up our passports with the Indian visas attached. Then onto Lahore and to the border as India was calling us. Up early, and grabbed a taxi to take us back to our hotel. We hung out doing ...
Lousy (in) Lahore
... I'm fearful I'll clog the machine with mud when I wash them. If - and that's a mighty big if - I do come back to Pakistan I think I'll avoid the cities and head north to the Himalayas with my newly adoptive mother for the clean air. After two overseas ...
4 jours de voyage mouvementé (épisode 4)
Départ de Taftan à 16:00. Longueur du trajet jusqu'à Quetta : 650 km. Première info : volant à droite, conduite à gauche. Comme dans tous les pays où sont passés les Britanniques. Entre moi et le chauffeur, une sorte de banquette improvisée ...
And who is bearded man with the gun over there?
Thomas: We spent a short time in Pakistan but it deserves a full entry here, not only the few lines we throw in the last time. Entering overland from China means travelling the Karakorum highway, an adventure itself. Karakorum means 'crumbling rock' ...
Rest Day
I was up before the dawn. There was about an hour and half's light before the sun reached camp. The shadows shrinking down the wall of mountains opposite were moving fast enough to watch. A few wispy clouds huddled round the tops of the mountains to the ...
The Wanderers Return
When I shut my eyes I could see piles of camel dung or maybe strewn rocks on a floor of sand. This irregular polka-dot pattern was imprinted on the inside of my eyeballs in the same way that a tune becomes an earworm. Akbar claimed the group would return ...
Archaeology site
One of the lesser of many great ancient ruins of Indus Valley civilizations dating back to many centuries BC. Moehenjodaro, Harrapa, and others would like to ...
Trip zum Nanga Parbat (Tagebuch)
Auszüge aus meinem Reisetagebuch So, 18.6.00 Rama "Hast du Lust, morgen zum Nanga Parbat zu fahren?" fragte mich Roberto, ein Traveller aus dem Guest House in Gilgit gestern Abend, und schon sind wir unterwegs (stell dir vor, zu Hause fragt dich ...
Back to Tourist Cottage
25 Dec 80 Returned by bus to Gilgit from Skardu. Couldn't get flight out for several days because of weather so took 14 hour bus trip back to Rawalpindi. And immediately got on bus to Lahore, I think. What a way to celebrate Christmas ...
Border Ceremony
Lahore is on the east side of Pakistan, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. I instantly liked the city and it had a nice vibe about it. I visited Lahore Fort which was built, damaged, ...
Preparing for Concordia/K2 base camp trek
... found it so hard to decide which ones, in the end It was quicker to just upload them all. Before actually entering Pakistan I was having alot of trouble with getting my visa (as I applied in Chengdu, where I was caught in the earthquake. ...
Dropping like flys on Ice in the sky
... craaazzzyy crazy bloody English!" He then told us some stories about an English guy he climbed Everest with before until a guy from Pakistan asked where Serbia was on the map, and was then intrigued about why is said Serbia and Montenegro, we then got a ...
Mr Stick goes to Dustville
... grabbed a couple and threw them over, and then clocked a few on the back with his bamboo cane. Welcome to crowd control, Pakistan-style. I was then ushered through to the stand and took my seat with the other English fans. We were kept separated from ...
A bus, and the stunning town of Peshawar
... 2003 - 20th December 2003) Ah smashing! As the huge and ridiculously over loaded 'bus' from Iran set off for Pakistan, passengers were doused in a mysterious petrol type liquid. There was panic as the driver climbed over and sampled it before safely ...
4 jours de voyage mouvementé (épisode 3)
... , n° de passeport et de visa, date, heure...). Entre parenthèses, c´est la seule frontière entre l´Iran et le Pakistan que peuvent emprunter les étrangers. Ceci fait, mon garde et moi avons marché un peu, à travers un terrain vague, pour rejoindre ...
Jhelum
... pakistanais, elle est française née en Algérie. Ils partagent leur temps entre Paris, où ils ont un 'business' et le Pakistan où ils ont construit cette école qui accueille des enfants sourds et muets. Tout est gratuitement fourni aux élèves : ...
Blue Peter
The whole campsite was white. The camel herders disappeared early to lug supplies from wherever the King's Advanced Troupe were, to wherever they were going next, if indeed, they were going anywhere in the whiteout. I was confused as to where the camel ...
Islamabad
... my safety...or at least minimize the risks. If I did manage to get a visa, I would also need another visa to re-enter Pakistan which I was told could take up to a week. The Embassy in Islamabad would not issue me a visa without a letter of invitation ...
4 jours de voyage mouvementé (épisode 5 et fin)
Samedi 17 Enfin dans le train ! Départ à 13:00 donc. Dernier wagon, numéro 9. Le trajet devait durer une trentaine d'heures. C'est impressionnant tout ce qu'on peut charger dans un wagon ! Quand je voyais ce qu'il restait sur le quai, je ne pensais ...
In Shallah oder die Kunst des Fragens (Erzählung)
Wieder einmal teilte sich der Weg und der Wanderer wusste nicht, welche der beiden Abzweigungen er wählen sollte. Ein Blick auf die Karte half auch nicht weiter, denn dafür war sie viel zu ungenau. Er war schon nahe daran, auf gut Glück eine der ...
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 ...
Bravery or Idiocy?
... . When you're in a bit of a hash haze around 1:00 in morning trapped against a wall surrounded by hundreds of men in Pakistan, several of whom just touched your ass, it's rather safe to say that you've been in better situations. Then the first song ...
The Manchester of Pakistan
... with Al-Onso my Formula One driver he took me there for the equivalent for 20 pounds. Faisalabad is called the Manchester of Pakistan because they have at least two things in common: 1) it is the textile capital of the country (as was the original ...
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
... border and then the valley at the bottom of the mountains is all green and lush and its just amazing. i really and truely love pakistan. its been the biggest surprise thing of the trip so far - its somewhere i never in a million years dreamed of coming ...
Trek To K-2 base camp
One of the most thrilling and exiting trek in the world. The Second highest peak in the world is one of special place known as concordia from where one have an bird eye view of all five 8000 meters peaks. It is something very specail and very natural and ...