End of the road, beginning of the journey

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August 24th 2010

Published: September 13th 2010

I realised something was wrong in Ishkashim as soon as I arrived. It took an extraordinary event to help me put my finger on exactly what was strange about the place and when it happened I was gobsmacked that I had not noticed before. The event occurred after I had been wandering up and down the town's two central streets, lined with shops selling clothing, carpets and household utensils, for ... Read Full Entry

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Edward Adrian-Vallance

EdVallance

I run a small but successful company organising tours, film shoots and research trips to hard-to-reach parts of Siberia, the Arctic and the Russian Far East. In particular we specialise in trips to the nomadic Nenets reindeer herders of the Yamal Peninsula , to Yakutia , the coldest inhabited part of the world, to Lake Baikal , the world's oldest and biggest lake, and to all regions of the Russian Arctic . I write whenever ... full info

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13th September 2010

scottandanny
Scott Tyrrell

Fascinating as usual. Amazing pictures. Seems the vodka has been replaced by bread and salty tea! Reminds me of Yak butter tea with salt that I had to endure in the gompas of Ladakh

13th September 2010

Josevich
Josevich

nice pictures
the kids are beautiful. the older ones must be too if they only learned to use sunblock and moisturizer. sun damage on skin has never been more evident

14th September 2010

liliram
liliram

Another journey!
Hey, we can't wait to read your next few blogs about this latest journey. Got to hand it to you to make all those heretofore unknown, exotic adventures. Stay safe!

5th January 2011

The Travel Camel
Shane Dallas

The Wakhan Corridor looks very tempting as a destination - thanks for providing such a great read!

2nd November 2011

Ranjit Tulsi
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Beautiful Pictures.
Hi Edward firstly great Blog. I am shocked that you actually did this journey into Afganistan on your own. Are you planning another trip to Afganistan again, I've been reading about a place called Nuristan where the country is like untouched by the outside world. I am very keen in going there if there's a chance. Regards, Ranjit

15th December 2013

Stephen
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Great Photos
Lovely shots here, especially some of the people and that huge mountain scenery. Any interest in contributing a guest blog to www.travelwakhan.com

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