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Western Balochistan
It's frontier country!
The dreaded stretch of road through the Balochistan desert... I was reading lots of horror stories about bad roads, loooong, boring drives and smugglers. After all, it is only a few kilometres to the Afghani border, and the gouvernment is far far away. It was nice though.
The Balochistan Desert
 
 

The Balochistan Desert

and the first drug smuggling camels

Date: 29.05.2005
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The black desert
 
 

The black desert

Date: 29.05.2005
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Another fort
 
 

Another fort

Date: 29.05.2005
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Sandstorm
 
 

Sandstorm

This really sucked, visibility went down considerably when you got into one of those mini-tornadoes

Date: 29.05.2005
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distant mountains
 
 

distant mountains

Date: 29.05.2005
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roadside village
 
 

roadside village

Date: 29.05.2005
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Yes, in the hills there are flowering scrubs!
 
 

Yes, in the hills there are flowering scrubs!

Date: 30.05.2005
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a good stretch of the road
 
 

a good stretch of the road

It wasn't really possible to take pictures on the bad stretches...

Date: 30.05.2005
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Inside Quetta
 
 

Inside Quetta

pretty dusty already

Date: 30.05.2005
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trapped!
 
 

trapped!

not even the escape route around them beside the road is reachable

Date: 30.05.2005
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