Aug 14, 2007

The Karakoram Highway (KKH)

The KKH isn't exactly a cruise on a good day. For some 700km, it traverses the steep sidewalls of deep valleys between Skardu and Islamabad. But with all the poor weather as of late, the road in one section was particularly bad. There were landslide washouts every km for a 150km section. The slides had been partially cleared, enough to let one car through at a time. One semi-truck got properly stuck in one and had to be suspended there by cables while they cleared a new road around it. And in another instance, it took much courage of one Chinese semi-driver to pull through another one, his cab on the brink of tipping over. After 24 hours of driving over two days, we have arrived in Islamabad. By tomorrow night, all of us should be on our flights out of Pakistan.

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