Avoiding stoning in Pakistan
A week earlier in Kashgar, western China's historic Silk-Road trading town, I had met two other independent travelers who wanted to traverse the Karakoram Himalayas and enter Pakistan. [...] casually over breakfast at my prosaic hotel, a woman I had just met gave me the most depressing warning I've ever received over toast. The only female I had seen on Gilgit's unpaved main street was covered in a full, black chador that hid even her eyes, but the woman with the disheartening tip said I wouldn't need a chador. Читать дальше...