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Buddha stone carvings, Crosses, abandoned broken down stone hut mosques in remote valleys, supposedly ghosts guarding ‘kools’ water channels, & the ethereally surreal groaning of glacial moraines, the search for ‘salaget’under large boulders ...
dawn.com/news/1568514
Buddha stone carvings, Crosses, abandoned broken down stone hut mosques in remote valleys, supposedly ghosts guarding ‘kools’ water channels, & the ethereally surreal groaning of glacial moraines, the search for ‘salaget’under large boulders ...
dawn.com/news/1568514
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Add to this hills like volcanoes of closed craters where an annual Zho or Yak is sacrificed to keep dormant!
And tales of goats lost to tigers!
The ‘Sia’ (rose) & meadows green with dandelion billowing in the wind!
The Shyok taking it’s toll in life to feed the Indus!
Add to this hills like volcanoes of closed craters where an annual Zho or Yak is sacrificed to keep dormant!
And tales of goats lost to tigers!
The ‘Sia’ (rose) & meadows green with dandelion billowing in the wind!
The Shyok taking it’s toll in life to feed the Indus!
The Genie’s shalwar left to dry on the hill side across the Gilgit river
The panning for gold as the snows melt!
All part of the now forgotten romance of the north!
Lost to development in the name of progress; the slopes of the 8 thousanders covered in trash!
The panning for gold as the snows melt!
All part of the now forgotten romance of the north!
Lost to development in the name of progress; the slopes of the 8 thousanders covered in trash!
Articles en Français sur le Pakistan par Bernard Grua 1/
#Chapursan #Gojal #Hunza #Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BernardGrua 🇫🇷
Suggestion pour un tourisme responsable dans la vallée de la Hunza
agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/…
#Chapursan #Gojal #Hunza #Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BernardGrua 🇫🇷
Suggestion pour un tourisme responsable dans la vallée de la Hunza
agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/…
Articles en Français sur le Pakistan par Bernard Grua 2/
#Chapursan #Gojal #Hunza #Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BernardGrua 🇫🇷 #NewSilkRoad 🇨🇳
La Karakoram highway #KKH prototype des nouvelles routes de la soie
agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/…
#Chapursan #Gojal #Hunza #Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BernardGrua 🇫🇷 #NewSilkRoad 🇨🇳
La Karakoram highway #KKH prototype des nouvelles routes de la soie
agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/…
Articles en Français sur le Pakistan par Bernard Grua 3/
#Chapursan #Gojal #Hunza #Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BernardGrua 🇫🇷
Le grand jeu aux confins du Pakistan, de la Chine 🇨🇳, de l'Afghanistan 🇦🇫et du Tadjikistan 🇹🇯
agoravox.fr/culture-loisir…
#Chapursan #Gojal #Hunza #Pakistan 🇵🇰 #BernardGrua 🇫🇷
Le grand jeu aux confins du Pakistan, de la Chine 🇨🇳, de l'Afghanistan 🇦🇫et du Tadjikistan 🇹🇯
agoravox.fr/culture-loisir…
#KKH
A High Altitude Wonder
and its Master Builders and Martyrs
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Towards the end of 50s Chinese and Pakistani Engineers started carving a road in Karakoram Mountains, a region with arctic winters and sizzling summers
It took them 20 years and a generation of martyrs
a thread
A High Altitude Wonder
and its Master Builders and Martyrs
___
Towards the end of 50s Chinese and Pakistani Engineers started carving a road in Karakoram Mountains, a region with arctic winters and sizzling summers
It took them 20 years and a generation of martyrs
a thread
My fascination with KKH goes back to my childhood and it's not an overstatement
The passion might have been fueled by Pak-China joint teleplays of 80s
Paiman e Wafa and Rishtay aur Rastay
Behroze Sabzwari played an officer of Pak Army Engineers deputed on KKH in the latter
The passion might have been fueled by Pak-China joint teleplays of 80s
Paiman e Wafa and Rishtay aur Rastay
Behroze Sabzwari played an officer of Pak Army Engineers deputed on KKH in the latter
A childhood love affair, a seasoned romance with a wish to reach all the way up north to a place where the land changed nationality
That dream was to realize years later, but much before I eventually took the wheel due north I was on an aerial route to China
and the year was 2004
That dream was to realize years later, but much before I eventually took the wheel due north I was on an aerial route to China
and the year was 2004
