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Going to and from Hunza is not easy

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December 30, 2011
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

 

We’ve been lacking the inspiration to write anything lately, so we rather made a few more videos.

The first one is from when we got stopped by two police officers while driving into Islamabad with a Canadian friend in his car. They wanted to convince us it is illegal to drive in Pakistan without a Pakistani registration, which is, of course not true. After some talking they let us go. But only after the Canadian friend slipped a couple of rupees into the officer’s hand.

After Islamabad, we decided to visit the beautiful and astonishing Hunza valley in the north of Pakistan. The Karakoram highway linking Pakistan to China runs along it. These are some bits from driving up there.

On returning to Lahore from the Hunza valley, we ran into a roadblock. This is what was going on.

  • http://twitter.com/mihabrkinjac Miha Brkinjač

    “Driving to Hunza Valley” me spominja na čase, ko smo igrali Colin Mcrae Rally :)

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jure-Brkinjač/637745681 Jure Brkinjač

      Samo res. The best! :)

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  • Imran

    Great blog. How did you guys get to Hunza from Islamabad? Car or bus? Please provide details if you can. Thanks

    • JureAO

      Thank you Imran! We went to Rawalpindi bus station and looked around there for buses. Then a guy offered us a ride in a jeep. It wasn’t much more expensive and it was faster. On the way back we took the bus from Aliabad though.