Chitral mountains

From the hotel again. The mountains surrounding the valley.
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Blog: At the border of Afghanistan, in the valley of the infidels
Date: September 22nd 2006

Wednesday September 20th

Today I was leaving Gilgit and the Northern Area for Chitral in the North-West Frontier province, right next to Afghanistan. Chitral is a big valley blocked from the rest of Pakistan 6 months a year. It is in the extreme north-west of Pakistan, just south of the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan (the little handle that sticks out of Afghanistan, a little colonial fa ... read more

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