Tag Archives: Mountain

The “Frontier School of Character”: Travels along the Pamir Highway Part IV.

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

To Khorog. “Recent years have struck a final crippling blow to the roadlessness of Kirgiziia […]. Instead of isolated districts there is now one connected and unified economic whole.” M.M. Slavinskii, 1935 A minute man waited for us in the … Continue reading →

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Out of season, again.

Posted on April 16, 2015 by

This is the second and last post of a series that I dedicated to mountain villages caught in the ‘low season’, when tourists have already gone or aren’t there yet. In the first post I visited Gaby, a village in the Lys … Continue reading →

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Northerly dispatches – where beauty is plentiful

Posted on November 19, 2014 by

One of the aspects that struck me the most of Bergen was how, just by turning a corner, magnificient views or unexpected panoramas would appear before my eyes. They weren’t by any means signed as “belvedere”, there weren’t any souvenir … Continue reading →

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