Pakistani desert storm
We know we have a long ride ride ahead of us to Pakistan and wake up at 6:15. We pack the bus, load it with lots and lots of water and check the oil. Its 7 o’clock when we are…
Road to Quetta
We are both still spining of lack of sleep when the first curious man arrives. ‘Sleep good?’ he asks. When we say we had not, he tilts his head and looks dissapointed. Then some more men arrive and they all…
A thousand images
Imagine you leave your hotel and thousands of images are thrown at you at the same time. Images that are a 100 percent different then the images you see at home. Every single one is different. At the same time…
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…
Mister Daniels
We arrive at the SOS-Lahore village in the afternoon after crossing the border with Pakistan. We are immediately greeted by the children and the staff. All are very delighted to see us again and we must say it felt great…