Robert Matzinger's Cycling Karakorum Highway
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Robert Matzinger's Cycling Karakorum Highway
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It's hot, humid and crowded in the Punjab and in the hills of Hazara.
"Where you come from?", that's what we hear poeple yelling whereever we appear - and children often do not only whatch, actually they can get quite annoying.
After our descent into the Indus Valley ...
... we enter Indus Kohistan. Landscape and people change and we encounter
an archaic, orthodox and sometimes a bit frightening land.
Still hospitality is great: Like a weapon dealer in one of this tiny villages
along the road, who invites us for tea
and insists in showing his wonderful Kalashnikows.
In the evening, people gather around at our hotel. First the athmosphere
tends to get tough, but then the crowd relaxes by viewing postcards of
Vienna and hugging our pet dog.
The road often goes high above the Indus, so
we have a lot of grades to climb. And pavement qualitiy is not always
among the best.
