G – Reporting
After the somewhat
stressful events of the day before woke felling quite excited that they were
all behind us, so after a tasty fried egg breakfast in our home stay, a quick
check of email at the local intent café! (see pic) we hit the road for almost
2km before we came to a our first Tajik checkpoint which are notorious for
trying to get a little money for their troubles, but not this time as usual all
our details where painstakingly written in a ledger and then after a few
handshakes we were on our way, nice!
To try and set
the scene the Pamir Mountains which you may have not heard of are basically the
very western end of the Himalayas so it’s safe to say they are big! With some
very high passes, after yesterdays 4600m we crossed a couple of smaller ones
and then on to the 2nd highest at 4200m celebrated with a cup of
coffee (we know how to push the boat out!) the landscape is stunning if a
little barren as not much grows at this height, we passed though one town mid
way thought the day which I find surprising as I have no idea what they do up
here?
Around 4ish the
weather started to turn and it got very cloudy and very cold and as we headed
down toward the Wakhan valley we came to our 2nd checkpoint of the
day this time an army one, again all our details were entered in a ledger only
this time it was done with an AK47 on the seat next to me then they asked for
petrol and food kind of odd and not sure if this was bribe time but they both
looked pretty cold and miserable so we gave a litre in an old coke bottle and
some apples which they seemed very happy about and sent us on our way.
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