Urak Valley

A very pleasant wrong turn.

"Bin Laden is my Hero" - Quetta to Punjab

September 2nd 2006
We planned to spend 3-4 days in Quetta resting and servicing the bikes before pushing on. But we were exhausted after crossing the desert and 3 days passed quickly without us doing anything much other than lazing around watching satellite TV, eating lots of cheap curry and being baffled by the oddities of Pakistani politics in the daily newspapers. Reading back over the last blog I realise I gave ... read more

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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

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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