A French woman cycling on the Pamir Highway -
she was using German tyres (I've asked her
because of the rough gravel road)
Yesterday I started writing
about Ladakh, but now I want to write on Tajikistan again. On this trip to
Ladakh I had been in a group together with a Suisse couple, who had been in
Tajikistan, too. In fact they’ve done the trip with the same organization as
me, only earlier. There had been some safety issues I didn’t encounter. He had
been surrounded by fierce frontier soldiers waving guns at him. In 2016 I
thought the frontier being safe, but this may have been a wrong interpretation
of silence. After my trip four cyclists had been killed [1] and the tourist
organization in Germany thought not continuing trips to Tajikistan being
the wiser option.
Late in 2016 I’ve written: “It
isn't a risk or adventure concerning security.” [2] Maybe I would write
otherwise now. The region, where the killings occurred, were part of our
itinerary.
The culminating point has been
the Pamir Highway [3].
Here I’ve written something on
how a vegetarian fares in Tajikistan [4].
Also I’ve written about the
teapots on graves at the border to Afghanistan [5].
So expect more in the days to come.
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