broken fuel line in tribal area
Powercuts are common in Pakistan, so also in Quetta. Normally there is nothing to it. But when the fan on the room stops, it can become very humid and hot and therefor difficult to wake up. ‘Water, water’.. michel says…
The river wild!
We were hoping to have had the worst bit of road when we leave loralai and head towards Multan. It’s already very busy on the street when we leave early in the morning. Everywhere men are doing some sort of…
The long haul to Lahore
We leave Fort Munro at about 8 in the morning after cleaning the car a bit. Elles had not slept very well as we had found a small scorpion in the bathroom the night before. The room had not been…
The prophets underwear
We needed a break from all the harsh travelling, the images that blew our imagination, the excitement of the dangerous area we drove through and because we were dead tired. We found a very nice hotel and crashed on the…
SOS-Children’s Villages Lahore
A father of three childeren decides he wants to get of his wife as he wants to marry another women. While his wife is breastfeeding the youngest of the three, the man bursts into the room holding a bucket of…
Bizar flagceremony at border
We are spending most of the day at the SOS-village in Lahore. We get a tour of the school and have lunch with the director of SOS-Pakistan who informes us of all the rural and children projects SOS is involved…
The golden temple
We left early in the morning to cross the border and head to Amritsar. We had slept on our guards all night as one of the men who worked at the PTDC border hotel had walked, ‘by mistake?’ into our…
Sweating
Sweat is running of my face, my arms and when i think of it… everywhere. I didn¡¯t even know i could sweat in certain places…but i do! What is the sequence of setting the valves…. i can¡¯t remember… or is…
King Kong Michael
It¡¯s still early in the morning when we check the car and engine a second time. When we are finished we leave Amritsar and head North. We soon leave the state Punjab and enter Himachal Pradesh, home of a large…
Michel & The palmreader…
India is the land of spiritual people, searching travellers, yoga, alternative medicines and ofcourse palmreading. I¡Çve always enjoyed the mystics but Michel, down to earth as he is, thinks all this in nonsense. But i have to admit he is…
From Amersfoort to Beijing