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Himalaya
Day 7: Peshawar to the Kalash Valleys
By now it's dark and though it's frustratingly hard to see what's out there, I have a sense of being somewhere special. The stars are white as pearls and homes are lit by single lamps and the flicker of wood-fires. A further three hours later one of the most spectacularly beautiful and consistently uncomfortable journeys I can remember draws to an end as we reach our home for the night, a plain and simple guesthouse above the tumbling waters of a young mountain river. And I was right. It is somewhere special. There are women without veils and wine to drink and villagers with clear blue eyes. This is a very unusual part of Pakistan.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 7: Peshawar to the Kalash Valleys
- Country/sea: Pakistan
- Place: The Kalash Valleys
- Book page no: 25
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