We have traveled up to Mcleod Ganj an old summer hill station near the Himalayas. It is also next to Dharamasala the home to the Dali Llamas exiled government to Tibet. This place is on the old hippy trail, but I have to say the place is mad, it is noisy, dirty and dangerous, all because it is a tiny place with taxis and motorcycles driving all over the place sounding their horns and taking no account of peoples safety. (I was hit several tomes by them).We saw ou...

After staying an extra day in Sukkur Adam, our driver, was well enough to continue. We set off in searing heat and a dust cloud. The scenery is becoming more agricultural and we are see our first heard of water buffalo there are more cattle instead of goats. The roads are improving and our police escort is a lot more professional, getting us through the traffic using sirens and hand signals, to stop the traffic as we pass through, even at some of the tolls we ju...

After a short wait for the electricity to start, the Pakistan authorities allowed us to leave their country! We enter India through the border at Wagarah. The authorities made a dogs dinner of booking us all in, once we were told all was well, another Official decides we have to take all the bags of the truck and put them through the scanner, which was not even on, for most of the bags?? We also met up with some of those who could not go through Pakistan and the ...

As we have a day in Quetta we took a walk into the bazaar area with some of the group, that was our first experience of beggars, poverty and open sewers and being followed by mobs of people, I think some were put off by it, but it was okay for us, once we were on our own. It was fantastic to see butchers, barbers ,beard painters, fruit sellers alongside flatscreen TVs being sold in the markets. There were very few women and most of them appeared to be beggars wit...

So what did we think of Iran. We were both looking forward to visiting this country, which is generally closed to westerners. We were surprised by the varied changes in the scenery, we were expecting desert and not much else, but what we got was snowy and wooded mountains, rolling hills, rivers, lakes and desert of course a wide range of agriculture dependant upon region.. Dates in the desert, rice in the wet lands and general agriculture elsewhere. The weather...