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Letting your guard down, or trying to: travels in southern Pakistan

We’ve been to Pakistan before. It felt familiar and comfortable. But I was too quick to let my guard down. Literally. The immigration officer reappeared and informed us that it wasn’t safe for us to travel alone to Peshawar. As foreigners we wouldn’t be allowed to spend the night there, either. And so we found ourselves in the back of another taxi, this time riding through Khyber Pass with an armed guard in the front seat.

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Sakhi Shrine, Kabul

Border to border: an unexpected journey in Afghanistan

So this was it. We drove slowly through the greyness over the Friendship bridge between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. There was no time to question the wisdom of our decision. I couldn’t think about it anyway, what with ‘I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus’ still stuck in my head.

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Summit of Mount Nemrut. Remains of the Kingdom of Commagene

Killing time in Turkish tombs: on the way to Iraqi Kurdistan

I felt like I could just stay in Istanbul, breakfasting and hanging out with cats, but it was time to get this show on the road. We were bound for Iraqi Kurdistan: an autonomous region in northern Iraq. Still, we weren’t in any rush to get there. We had time to kill and a bit of Turkey to cross.

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Sunset at the campsite in Brandberg, Namibia

Home is where the car is: a roadtrip in Southern Africa

From meerkats to lions and everything in between – puff adders come to mind – roadtripping and camping in southern Africa is next-level. It took us exactly one camp cooking session and a single night in the roof tent to start considering stealing the truck ourselves and becoming vanlifers.

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Cinema Odeon, in Asmara, Eritrea.

Eritrea: a week in Africa’s North Korea

An Italian colony, a British protectorate, an Ethiopian state – Eritrea has changed hands a few times. Since achieving independence in 1993 after a long and bloody fight, it has become a reclusive nation often referred to as ‘The North Korea of Africa’.

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