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August 12th 2014

Published: August 18th 2014

A Varanasi silk-seller once said to me, “Visit India for a week, and you’ll write a good article. Visit India for a month and you’ll write a better one. But visit India for a year, and you won’t even be able to pick up a pen.” I’ve got the same problem with the Afghan Pamirs. I could probably have strung a few paragraphs together after our first day on the track up from Wuzed. My scri... Read Full Entry

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Elizabeth Weir

Weir travels

I decided in early 2006 that I'd had enough of the London rat-race and the career thing - at least, for the time being - and that I'd like to take some time out: "me time", as it were; time to do at least some of the things that I'd been thinking about doing over the last few years but hadn't been able to fit in around work and client demands. So here I am: backpack to the ready (to be honest, it had never really been put away after my '93-'94 round-the-world trip), and a gazillion ideas about how to fill the next xx months..... (And, no, I've no idea when I'll go back to the "real" worl... full info

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18th August 2014

A Small Swede in the Big World
Per-Olof Persson

Most impressive!
Amazing trip and very impressive of you to go to a region few visit these days. I couldn't help but to snicker at the borders guards remarks and actions.

18th August 2014

Monique van den Broek
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Superb!
Elizabeth, your a magician with words. I love your post, the words you have chosen and English is such a nice language to describe what we have experienced. Thousand times thank you!

18th August 2014

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Unique adventure!
I'd first read of the Pamirs in "Three Cups of Tea" and have been curious about it ever since. Good to see that there's some tourism to help these isolated nomads, and that it's properly rugged to keep out the masses. How great to have gone where so few others have dared! Great photos, and I love the gorgeous outfits on these women!

18th August 2014

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Amazing blog...
so how many sheep were you worth, being that you were beyond the shelf life of 24?

21st August 2014

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Good reason to be pleased
The Afghan Pamirs...truly a dream destination. Great to know there are groups that can get you there and to trek/drive through there safely. Fantastic blog and must be a record for the number of panorama pics. May your memories of this trip be clear forever.

23rd August 2014

The Travel Camel
Shane Dallas

Bridge problems
I crossed this same bridge by foot during a day of hiking back in late May 2013. However, it looks a lot worse in your photo! This is an absolutely outstanding blog - worthy of more than one entry. Glad you loved the Wakhan Corridor as much as I did. It is the hardest and most difficult place I've travelled, but despite this, it is one of my favourite places on earth.

8th January 2015

gillg
gillg

Thanks
Inspiring reading!

28th August 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Just finished the Pamirs
We didn't go to Afghanistan but loved Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. As you say the words are tough to come by. An amazing trip. I enjoyed reading your impressions. MJ

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