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Peshawar, Pakistan
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2005

The Pass

David Murray
2007-02-23 22:11:30

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Once again, we had an early bus trip, this time to Peshawar, or so we were lead to believe. All the homies at the hotel stated that the bus left around 09:00, but this was more like 12:00, so we sat around and waited. But I had an even better reason for going. Lucy had said that if I was good, she would let me go up "The Khyber Pass", and this was one opportunity I was not going to let go of, so I was making sure I was on my best behavior !!!!!

Once in town, we found a rickshaw driver that was nicely priced and we ended up at the Rose Hotel. We grabbed a room, and had a look in the book to see if there was anyone there we knew. From Lahore, was our Pommie mate, Alexander, so we buzzed him and planned to meet up, once we were settled in. This was done quite quickly, and as he had not seen the fort, which you can not miss when driving into town, we decided to take a walk down to see it. The LP states that you can see a small piece of it and also visit the museum that is inside, so we marched up to the front door, only to be stopped by AK47 wielding soldiers. Kind of makes you stop quite quickly when they are pointed at you. It was quickly explained that we were not allowed in. We pointed at the LP and told them that this book does not lie, but they would not take the word of the bible !!! From this point, we split up again, and we were grabbed by an Afghani carpet seller. He plied us with his tea, but we resisted, but he asked us to come back the following evening for a traditional Afghani meal. We accepted on the spot, as we are tight bastards and we do like a free meal !!! We met up with Alexander and we had dinner on the roof of the hotel. He explained his plans for Afghanistan, and it has now started a clock ticking in our brains. We must get there ourselves, as the place is getting safer.

Lucy, had said that I was being the perfect boy, and she was going to reward me with a trip up the Khyber Pass. ...