My opinion about my town I was born and raised in Islamabad, Pakistan. You all claim to have travelled through Pakistan and I respect that. However, I must say this is the most boring city in the world full of people who try to copy the west but do not realize how foolish they look. I can comfortably say that anyone from this city falls in a class we like to call in Pakistan - burgers. These people do not understand the meaning of being Pakistani and try to copy the west (but have never been there). The city lacks character, culture and class. I have lived in Karachi (the major and the only 'real' city of Pakistan) and I would like to tell all these lamers in Islamabad to learn how to live form the Karachiites. People of Karachi have heart, culture and an open mind. If you want to experience Pakistan, go to Karachi not Islamabad, as you rather stay in the heart of the country than being stuck in it's crotch.
what happened to Sasha? Is travelblogger #846 Sasha Alexander ok? He hasn't logged on since about Sept. 7. I think someone else logged onto his site Oct 6 because I tried to send an e-mail to him and then immediately someone logged onto his site but I don't thinkit was him. Anyways he was riding a motorcycle through Costa Rica and dissapeared. Please reply
old friend hey Alex, its your old friend Tony from way back in the day. I didnt know you were headed that way. I was in Phoenix over the forth, would have been able to hook you up... drop me line some time.
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fuck all tajik beutifull girls when ever i want i am going to fuck these beutifull ladies up there
have u fucked anyone or it was just a fucken bore visit????
Gr8 A very nice story keep it up, interisting .
am an Afghan working in Badakhshan of Afghanistan with resarch, I had also same visit from Doshanbe to Kharogh its realy interisting and beutifull with a very hospitality people got in there.
Regards,
Asif
asifmasoom85@hotmail.com
whats new? Wow so whats the latest? The last date is July 11 and its now the 28th of July. Is everything ok? Tent set up on an old mattress in an abandonded house in Michoacan. Free marijuana and inexpensive but high quality cocaine? Malandros everywhere. Waiting for a broken motorcycle to be repaired. Fourteen year old friendly girls! It sounds like youve stumbled onto a real nice place to live. I was kind of hopeing you would check out the Carribean Coast of Nicaragua and Honduras on your motorcycle and give a report on that.
Walking into Colombia Just a hello from a fellow traveler. I've been doing a lot of thinking about my earlier travels when I was in my 20s. One such trip was a three day walk from Puerto Obaldia to Acandi. The trip to Obaldia was by supply boat, packet to the gills, and about to sink with every wave. There were about 15 other travelers who made the trip, but unfortunately for me, my spot was top side and I got pretty well burned by the sun. Again, the trip to Obaldia was long, but we managed to visit many villages as well as a short hop to the San Blas Islands. All but a few of us paid to get to Acandi by dugout plus motor. The few that remained walked for three days along mostly well worn trails, although from time to time we'd still get lost. One such trail lead us to cliffs overhanging the ocean, and we ended up in a precarious situation that finally resolved itself. We slept in vacant churches that we assumed were used when the priests visited, and on hard and cold cement floors. For food, we paid a local family to cook something for us since there weren't any restaurants. At the top of the final hill before Colombia was a large monolith, about 2 meters wide, and about 4 meters high (if memory serves). On the Panama side of the structure was a metal plate engraved with the seal of Panama, and on the Colombia side was the same. Shortly thereafter we entered Acandi, and then by motor sail to Turbo. There was a night we slept by a cool fresh water creek, and for which served as a bath as well. Although some had come for the drugas, I came for the experience. And, the Darien experience was but one part of an entire 12 months travel, from Portland to Cuenca. Its difficult to talk to people about the experiences because there are so many skeptics, and I don't have pictures, only letters sent to my mom. And the other thing is that I never really thought it was a big deal, but some people get wacked about my journeys, so I don't talk too much about it, not even to my family. How do you explain that for the majority of the time, I slept in the open, in tall grass, under trees, where ever I could find what looked to be safe, and that its even harder to convince people that my body (not me consciously) began to learn to sleep with my eyes open. For months before I got back to Mexico, my eyes would burn when I woke up. A guy I hitched with from Guatemala to Texas told me one day that he'd seen me in total sleep next to his VW bug (sleeping on the ground), but my eyes were open, and it really weirded him out. Don't know why, but it was what it was. Even today, I sleep on my hand, a memory of the days sleeping on the earth I guess. My wife doesn't know why I do it, but it just happens.
So anyway, from North America to South, from Spain, North Africa, the Middle East and Afganistan, and back, I thank you for letting me write in your space.
Wow!!!! Good lack for your new journey!! Wow!! Alex I still admire your curiousity, and your entusiasm in travelling to such an interesting and in the same time dangerous places...
KEEP up doing it!!!!!!!!!11
Nargis,
Khorog
Nice to have you back sasha Almost 2 years of break! I nearly thought you had given up blogging since your last blog from kisangani to mwanza (which ended abruptly...). Just by luck I was checking tonight and 'Oh you are back'. Anyway I really like your blogs and I hope they keep coming from now on again. I particularly was struck by your story in ivory coast (during the war) and all you went through in CAR with those policemen and the democratic republic of congo... Anyway glad to have you back as it sounds you are now around central america. It might be nice to include some photos when possible (suggesting as for the current panama blog which looks pretty dry without...).
Ok see you around
american girls lol hey Im an american and try to avoid my fellow citizens as if they had the plague. Sometimes (only when traveling) I wish I had there problem, fat, as I have a fast metabolism which makes me eat things that I regret soon afterwards: Keep up the blog its great and making me think of a similar trip.
friends
Hi I am from south America , but lives in Canada . Know a lot of Iran and been there a few times . Like to make friends around the world . Pls. if you'd like stay in touch .
Regards
Harry
LOVE CAR Sasha, your blog is really great! I know people from CAR and they are really very friendly, enjoyable and noble. I love these people, because they are very poor and still they are very kind. I am only 14 years old and I think I'll have a chance to travel there and see everything with my own eyes! GOOD LUCK!!!
great blog Hi,I just wanted to tell you,that I enjoyed reading your blog a lot.I know central Africa quite well,`cause I used selling second hand trucks in Congo a couple of years ago.It was every time a strang experience again-exacteley as described by you.
Mwanza is in TZ where I am! So, you are really on the move. I found your blog on a search for the Aga Khan and then peeped at your next entry, following the trail to... Mwanza?
Okay, if you want to meet up in Tanga, I'll host you and tell you an amazing story. PS, I had a Russian lady called Alexandra work for me who lives in Mufindi (she is married with 3 boys and a grandchild). She is also 'Sasha'. There for you: Mohamed Akbarovich (that's what she used to call me).
Ismailis/ Aga Khan I'm an Ismaili from a very different part of the world - no blood relation to the the Tajik/ Pamir/ Afghan/ NW Frontier. However, we follow the AK too. I really enjoyed the laid back way you described the place and gave me an honest picture of how the people are! Including the vodka, beer, smuggling... and bacon!!! Sounds like many Ismailis around the world!! Still, all Ismailis, smuggler or no, take their faith seriously and, yes, we revere the AK and are proud to say we'd give our lives for him. On my side, I don't believe in taking shortcuts and take my faith more seriously and the Aga Khan always talks about the 'ethics of Islam'. Today these ethics are the only chance we have of proving the worth of this beautiful faith. I am at gmjiwa on yeah in the coukay
I am twenty years old, a student, I pay for my travelling currently with student loans and financial aid from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and occassional emergency contributions from my parents. I travel because I can't really not, and because I am interested in trying to visit the areas that are blanks on the map, that I know nothing about so I can know a lot about these places... I also like travelling in very difficult places, my top destinations are Tokelau, Somalia, Democractic Republic of Congo, the Comoros, Madagascar, Sudan, Iran, Guyana, Bhutan, North Korea,... full info
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My opinion about my town
I was born and raised in Islamabad, Pakistan. You all claim to have travelled through Pakistan and I respect that. However, I must say this is the most boring city in the world full of people who try to copy the west but do not realize how foolish they look. I can comfortably say that anyone from this city falls in a class we like to call in Pakistan - burgers. These people do not understand the meaning of being Pakistani and try to copy the west (but have never been there). The city lacks character, culture and class. I have lived in Karachi (the major and the only 'real' city of Pakistan) and I would like to tell all these lamers in Islamabad to learn how to live form the Karachiites. People of Karachi have heart, culture and an open mind. If you want to experience Pakistan, go to Karachi not Islamabad, as you rather stay in the heart of the country than being stuck in it's crotch.