All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘borders’
DMZ – Korea
Korea – DMZ [ The De-Militarized Zone is a 4 km strip separating South Korea from Communist North Korea ]. JSA /Joint Security Area tour at Panmunjom, stuck within the DMZ and administered by both sides, where the views of the North are clear and where the tension is just metres apart …
Read More →On the rough road – Guinea Bissau to Guinea
Crossing Borders and traveling in Guinea, I encounter difficult journeys, wrecked transport, drunk soldiers, appalling roads, and very friendly ladies …
Read More →Hitch-hiking Baluchistan – Pakistan
He’d just locked the keys inside his truck. What a plonker! And what a hopeless position: parked as it was in front of the gate – which the guard had just unlocked and now the truck totally blocked the access point between Iran and Pakistan, cornered on Afghanistan …
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Police questioning – Idgir, Turkey
It’s dark, 10pm and the hotelier panics at my arrival … so there I am: in a shabby police station to register my presence in Idgir, eastern Turkey near the Iranian border, these two brutish cops …
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