Author Archives: Neil

Old Lahore

The 300 or so Km from Multan to Lahore was straightforward with good roads. We even managed to maintain a good pace despite the police escorts and were on our own for the last 50km or so. Traffic coming into … Continue reading

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Catch up

Blog is updated and almost up to date except for Lahore where we currently are. If you are missing where you were then start at “Greeted in Gurun” and read forwards. I have also added a load of photos, some … Continue reading

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Multan

The journey to Multan was straightforward. We stopped at a petrol station and saw a goat strung up from a tree being skinned. We had just missed it being slaughtered apparently. I was unsure if that was a good thing … Continue reading

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Rahim Yar Khan

In the morning the roads were bad again out of Jacobabad but we were up early to beat the traffic after yesterdays adventure. There was still lot of flooding and rebuilding had started on some houses but was going slowly. … Continue reading

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Jacobabad

The road out of Quetta started ok. Some parts were unsurfaced but fine to ride as long as you were paying attention all the time. We had escorts right out of Quetta and afterwards they soon fell behind and disappeared. … Continue reading

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Quetta

Again we had the police escort to Quetta. The German truck guy made a few cracks about Nazi Germany to one of them and machine gun gestures. I could not understand exactly what was going on but it was hard … Continue reading

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In Pakistan

Hey all. We are now in Pakistan in Quetta. Been an interesting couple of weeks. Have a stack of stuff to put on the blog very soon although probably will not have time right now as a couple of other … Continue reading

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Dalbandin

The guidebook was relatively negative about the stretch from Taftan to Quetta. Being mostly desert it mentioned that overlanders described this as the most boring part of their journey. I had no idea what sort of road conditions to expect … Continue reading

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Dash to the border

In the morning Mr Akbir arranged police escort as he was responsible to do. This seemed to be an overreaction due to the kidnapping of some tourists a few years ago by drug smugglers. None of us were concerned except … Continue reading

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Bam

The road the guys followed out to Bam was not on my satnav so I dropped back to see what was going to happen. They asked a taxi driver for directions at one point, but the road was fine, and … Continue reading

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