The horsemarket incident
Peshawar and the tribal area’s in the north western frontier province are under a great Afghan influence. This is caused by millions of refugees who crossed the border escaping the taliban rule and the war that followed. This left millions…
Guns of the Khyber Pass
Some days you will never forget. You never know it before hand, fortunately or unfortunately. A long story as so much has happend We are woken up by a knock on the door. Shit, we overslept. We are going on…
Inside an Afghan refugee camp
When you are told that there are very dangerous men in the hotel, how would you sleep? Well, we didn’t as every single piece of noise either woke us up. Very much tired and very groggy we woke up. We…
Too much in a weeks time
After seeing all the poverty in tribal area and the refugee camp it is weird to be in the luxurious Islamabad. Pizzahut, Subways all foodchains are available. But we are happy to be in a relatively safe area again. Relatively…
Very much lucky
We get up early to be in time at the Chinese Embassy. We feel tired as we have not slept at all because of the shooting incident of the night before. All night we have been busy with the things…
Into the himalayas
We were looking forward to driving in the himalaya’s. The magnificent Karakoram highway will lead us to China, our final destination… the last of the ten countries of this this expeditions. The last few days had been hectic. The feeling…
It’s a strange night after all
Due to the violent outburst in Islamabad a few day earlier we were advised to watch out on Fridays as all men congregate after the Friday prayers in the Mosque and this could lead to demonstrations. We had to do…
Changing weather conditions
During breakfast we are fascinated by the streetlife of Abbottabad. The rough looking men and the women who are all covered up make it an interesting scene. We film and take lots of pictures. Then it’s time for the second…
sunbathing on top of the car
We leave Besham at nine and head towards Gilgit. The roads are in a good condition except for the places where landslides have occurred. Several signs warn us for dangerous landslide area’s but as the weather is perfect we have…
Cheap Chocolate Milk
4 pieces of toast and some cornflakes are the start of a new day. We pack the car as good as we can to avoid movement of luggage while driving. The road from Besham to Gilgit was hit a few…
From Amersfoort to Beijing