Squeezing aside to give way to a lorry on mountain road, bigger vehicle have right of way.
A broken down jeep taxi on the mountain side. Our police escort walking over to check. Note how narrow the roads can be... no room for error..
A small landslide. Enough to scare us but we managed to clear the rocks and made a path to safely pass through.
Typical Pakistani lorries.. fully decorated..
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Stopped by a landslide that has blocked off the road to the Village inhabited by descendants of Alexander the Great.
The landslide have washed away the road.
A villager on a donkey admiring the view of the valley / village below
Some of the road conditions in Pakistan
Old horse carriage.. having seen its best days.
Mule truck
Onions in abundance.. drying out on the road side
Pakistan's tut tuts
Village Muslim girls
Wow what a huge load! cotton ....
The lorry with the huge load , cotton...
Our Pakistani police escorts.. armed to the teeth.. as we got closer to the Afghanistan border, the number of armed escorts increased and eventually we were escorted by the ATF unit. The escorts stayed with us 24 hours a day. We were allowed to visit and stop anywhere along the route. However, if we wanted to detour, we had to inform the escort in advance, so the escort team in the area that we were visiting are available when we arrive.
Put up a night at this hotel in Peshawar
A water filled pothole on the way to the salt factory
Huge piece of rock salt.
Salt factory owner and his workers.
Refugee camps.. most probably Afghans
Waiting for the bus...to sell the goats in the next town
On the way to Lahore after visiting Peshawar
Entering Lahore
Commotion at a fruit stall in Lahore
Rare church in Lahore
Curled horn buffaloes wallowing in shallow river outside Lahore
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