Horsepacking in the Wakhan, where only 100-300 venture every year By Bernadine Mynott In late August 2015, I embarked on an incredible three-week adventure into the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, in the remote Wakhan Corridor and the Pamir Mountains. The landscape was dramatic. The sheer scale of the mountains and the vastness of the valleys were exotic. I felt […]
Waiting it Out at a Mass Wedding in Pakistan By Heather Carreiro I reread the crumpled wedding invitation for what must be the twelfth time: 10:00 a.m. I look at my watch: 1:00 p.m. Over a thousand guests sit sweating under the tent, waiting for the festivities to begin. Pakistani weddings tend to run late, […]
Pakistan’s Karakorams: Mountains to the Max By David Rich What place would you nominate as the world’s most spectacular mountain vacationland, an amalgam of beautiful lakes, glaciers, meadows and mountains combined with sincerely hospitable people? Candidates abound. A half dozen finalists might range from Europe’s French, Swiss and Italian Alps to the Picos de Europa […]
Travel at Ground Level By Marie Javins A little girl threw herself in front of our moving truck. We were in India, on day eleven of a two-month overland trip from Nepal to Syria. Our truck was a comfortable, converted, orange and white Mercedes and like most commercial overland trucks, it was a self-contained movable […]
By Marie Javins A little girl threw herself in front of our moving truck. We were in India, on day eleven of a two-month overland trip from Nepal to Syria. Our truck was a comfortable, converted, orange and white Mercedes and like most commercial overland trucks, it was a self-contained movable world with storage containers […]
