Photos

Silk road travel:
On our way to the Wakhan corridor, south of Khorog in the Panj gorge, the road is in much better condition than the Pamir highway is. It dates from the Fifties but no tanks have ever churned up the pavement and the traffic is limited to a few vehicles a day.

The two workers presented here are checking the road for rocks falling down the slopes. We always asked the persons for permission before taking their picture. In this case the man to the left was embarassed. I should have told him: "don't be embarassed, a workers clothes, even when ragged and dirty, honor their owner". This nugget of wisdom I had learned in my Swiss school almost 60 years ago. We cyclists did'nt look much better!

In the workshop area I present a Chochkhona (=Tea house) where you could eat Shurba.