Pakistan: Terrorists, guns and violence? NO! Friendly people, awesome landscape and no women! September 10th 2006 Saturday September 9th
Last day in China. Bus was leaving at 10AM Beijing Time but before we went I took a morning walk to Tashkurgan Fort which was alright but nothing to write home about. We had to skip breakfast because the bus was supposedly already at the customs so we hurried to walk there only to realize we were the first one from the bus in there. We waited for a while, talking ... read more
Asia » Pakistan » Northern Areas » Gulmit The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan have fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disput... ... read more
Follow my adventures as I travel through Asia, the sub-continent, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe for a year or so. I'll be travelling solo, independantly and on a tight budget so it should be interesting.
There's been a little change in my itinerary. I cannot get a Iran visa as a Canadian so I opted to fly to Athens from Mumbai. From there I'll go through the Balkans in about a month before heading south toward Cairo overland.
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