Tag: Silk Road
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PESHAWAR – PAKISTAN
14/4/25 – 15/4/25 After arriving at Pirwadhai, in Rawalpindi – after our ridiculous journey from Gilgit-Baltistan, we had a short walk to the top of the street to find buses going to Peshawar. Luckily, the drive between the two cities is both relatively short, and relatively popular, and so in no time we had located…
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GILGIT-BALTISTAN – PAKISTAN
11/4/25 – 13/4/25 After a short night of sleep in Islamabad, we were up at 4am, in theory to catch the flight from Islamabad to Gilgit at 7am. Unfortunately for us, and rather unsurprisingly, the flight had been cancelled – this meant that we had to find an alternative route to Gilgit. We walked over…
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ISLAMABAD – PAKISTAN
10/4/25 – 11/4/25 At 12:30pm KL time, my Pakistan International Airways flight lifted off, bound for Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Honestly, I’d heard some pretty poor reviews of PIA, but the flight actually wasn’t too bad – it was only 6.5 hours in length, so I couldn’t complain! The only strange thing about the flight…
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TIRANA – ALBANIA
18/12/24 – 20/12/24 By the time we landed in Tirana, after our long travel day, it was already close to midnight! Luckily, we were off the plane quickly, and Albania’s e-Gate system made for fast passage through passport control – our next step was to find the Luna bus, which operates between the airport and…
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MOSTAR – BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
17/12/24 Whilst we had originally intended to catch the train from Sarajevo to Mostar, some awful flooding a month earlier put paid to that – we made our way instead to the bus station next door! Balkan buses are the region’s primary mode of intercity transportation – they have some quirks, however, which one has…
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SARAJEVO – BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
14/12/24 – 18/12/24 The flight from Belgrade to Sarajevo was short and painless (unlike the chaos of the return journey, which I’ll get to later!). Sarajevo Airport isn’t too far away from the city, and there are apparently two bus routes – one which is a private bus from the airport to the city, and…
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NOVI SAD – SERBIA
12/12/24 We had decided before arriving in Serbia to take a day trip to Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, and capital of the autonomous Vojvodina region. After departing from Belgrade’s brand-new (and unfinished) railway station, on the fast, comfortable, double-deck SOKO train, we found ourselves quickly trundling through the Serbian countryside en-route to Novi Sad.…
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