My Lucky Escape from the Remote Wakhan after Problems Bike S8 EP.12 |Pakistan to Japan Motorcycle
I didn't see that. Got to push it now. Assalamualaikum everyone and welcome back to the channel from Broghil Valley Afghanistan. And exactly where we are is called Sarhad Broghil. This is the last stop of this valley. A few kilometers from here, the Pakistan area starts.
Unfortunately, we can't go there. But in earlier times people would take this route, cross Broghil Pass and go to the other side. Now there is only one way left. That is through Torkhum or Chaman. It can only be crossed from there. Our plan is to leave Sarhad Broghil today.
We'll take the same route as yesterday to go back to Khandud. Our motorcycle is parked there. The petrol we got from Eshkeshem the day before yesterday, the quality of that petrol was so bad that the motorcycle has now developed problems. The fuel pump is running. Hope that we'll still be able to reach Faizabad or Khandud on it. We may have to get its tank and the fuel pump cleaned.
I have also ordered some spare parts. Hopefully, they will reach Dushanbe. And then we will continue our journey. I was told that the fuel quality in this region is not so good.
So, be careful. Anyway, let's get going. I'll also tell you how far we can travel after picking the motorcycle from Khandud.
Let's have a light breakfast here before we leave. Today's breakfast includes Afghani bread, tea and cream cheese. We are tired of eating this everyday. Even though it should have been a little local here.
But we end up with this cream cheese here. So that's our breakfast. We are on our way back. We have two Turkish brothers with us. Methchan and Daud.
They are hitchhikers, traveling through Pamir. They asked me to take them with us. I said most welcome. They visited Pakistan last year. We also have our driver with us.
He was acting a little greedy. I told him that I am paying the rent for the whole car. So why not take these guys with us, he said no. He will charge a little extra for them. He wanted me to pay an extra $20 to which I agreed. I will pay more.
Because the Taliban commander here wanted to go with us in the morning. He said he will pay 2000 Afghanis. I was not comfortable with him going with us. Because then we won't be able to make videos properly.
It will be an uncomfortable journey. It was better to take these travelers with us. Taliban have their own cars. He asked me to pay him $100 extra. Despite the fact that I'm already paying rent for the whole car.
He finally agreed on $20. But I didn't like his behavior. I was taking him towards Pamir. I asked him if he could show me the way.
He was asking for $400 more. I told him to let it be. When you are in an accident, you are told to take it easy.
You have to spend some money. It would have been really difficult if the commander was with us. Anyway, we are on our way. Hopefully, we will reach Khandud in 3 to 4 hours. After a 4.5 hour drive, we have finally reached Khanduud. The motorcycle is waiting for us here.
But I haven't gone there yet. I am very hungry. We won't find anything to eat on the way from Khandud to Eshkashem. There is a restaurant here. So we came here. The food is here. Let me show you. We have chicken and Afghani roti.
And then we have our two lovely Turkish guests. Hope you had a great journey to Wakhan. Thank you so much. My pleasure. It's the first time I have got good naan here. Otherwise, naans are very hard.
This one is fresh. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, Baz Mohammad. See you soon, Insha Allah. Nice to meet you. Bye Bye. Bismillah... In the name of Allah...
Prayer for the journey O Allah, may we reach safely. We have a long ride ahead. I'm a little wretched. And so is the motorcycle.
The engine light is still on. I don't know if there is any issue other than fuel. I have checked though.
I didn't see anything. I think I have to cross this. It's about 85 km off-road from here. And if the motorcycle can't do this, it will be a big problem. This is... Khandud. Assalam Alekum.
I think we will be able to leave from down there. There are green meadows and pastures here. It's a good place.
People were also very nice. Except for the driver. Mehbollah. He sort of tried to ruin the whole ride towards the end.
Just to get some extra bucks. Wow... Splendid. Desert, river, greenery, mountains. Everything and on top of that a rocky road.
Adventure through and through. An endless road. Something like that.
There is a lot of sand. How will I pick it up now? There is so much sand. I don't know how to go on that road. It will be very difficult to get out of here.
Need to unpack the luggage first. They say that bad days come in a streak. Oh God! I tried to stop a lot but I couldn't. That was a mess. And to be honest, when you need someone, you can't find anyone here.
And if I am flying a drone here or there, then thousands of children come out from here and there. Now I carried all this stuff to there. Thought it would be better to get the motorcycle out of sand first. Oh my God! Oh my God! It won't work. The silencer was also broken. The other day, I did all this journey at night.
And I had no idea. I went very fast. And now when I'm going back, I'm already a little scared due to the motorcycle. Don't want it to get powered down again.
Amazing scenes. Very beautiful. The colors of the mountains Everything is green below.
And you can see a very unique type of tree in front of me. I have seen many trees in this journey before. But you can see that there is nothing on the sides. And there is just a tree standing in the middle.
And the jeep is flying the sand in front of us. Better if we can cross it. I'm a bit scared but let's go through. What if I fall....
I didn't see it. Need to push now. Thank you. It was a nasty muddy puddle. The pathway was on the side.
But I just kept coming. And ended up getting stuck in the mud. Now let's try to follow him. Which way does he go? Look at this. It's so beautiful here. It's in full swing.
And there is a lot of water in this section. No doubt, you won't find a more adventurous route in the world. You just need to be prepared for some tough situations. But adventure means tough situations. All my adventures have been like that.
You just need to keep enjoying it. The water in Panj river is blackish. The population here is mostly Ismaili.
I asked a few people. I intentionally don't show them on camera. So that they don't have to face any issues when the video is published.
And you know that on the Pakistani side, the Ismaili areas, in Wakhan and Hunza, they are very educated. And their girls are also given the same opportunities as boys. So they are a bit worried now that their girls don't have more opportunity to study here. Earlier, girls from here would go to study in Kabul.
When there was a second republic. But now... They have left it. They have come back because their colleges have been closed. Because now the girls are only allowed to study till class 6. Eshkashem doesn't seem like arriving anytime soon.
It feels like I have been riding forever. It's a very long ride. Now I think we have reached Eshkashem. It looks like this. Yes, this is the same market.
We were stopped here. And it's 5.15 pm here. So I think if we leave from here... We have to get the petrol filled. We have no other option but to get the petrol filled. If we get the petrol filled and leave, it is possible that we will reach Faizabad by 9.15 pm.
The border is closed. So we don't have to wait here. It's a waste of time. Look at that. That's the quality of the petrol here. Now we will get the fuel injector from Faizabad. We got it filled from someone else before.
Now everyone is the same. I am scared. We got it filled from this guy before. Let's change it now. It could be of somewhat better quality in the other shops. Doesn't look like that though. I have never seen such bad condition of our Rangeeli in any tour.
It's not good. But it's going well so far. So I think we will reach Dushanbe in Tajikistan. If our journey continues like this. Everything is going well. The engine light is on. I am not sure why.
Maybe it was because of the fuel. We had fixed the fuel tank here. It's working now.
So everything is going well. Along with Rangeeli, my condition is also not good. We have taken water here.
It will be another 4 hour ride. We will reach there by night. I am not going to stay here as there is no internet here. Mobile services are also not available.
If the motorcycle doesn't work tomorrow, I don't know what to do. It's better to leave from here. If everything works, we will cross Tajikistan tomorrow.
I mean enter Tajikistan. Okay, bye bye. Thank you. What a beautiful field.
There is water in the middle. There is a reflection of the mountains in the background. The golden light of the sun. And on this side, there are some traditional houses of the locals.
It's a wonderful sight. Sunset ride is my favorite. It's a very long ride.
And the scenery is just amazing. You can see the red colored mountains. Along with that, there are some gray mountains. It's just beautiful. This is the specialty of Pamir.
These colorful mountains. And when the light falls on them, they look beautiful. Look at the night time here.
Oh God! The river looks scary. The highway here is good. But the off-road sections are not marked. There are no directions. It's a problem at night time.
There is not much traffic. Sometimes you can see a car. Welcome to Faizabad. It's 9.05 am. We have reached Faizabad.
We still have to drive 4 to 5 km more. So that we can reach our hotel. I didn't book the hotel. I hope they have enough space. Otherwise, it will be a problem. Almost half of the city is closed.
Most of it is closed. Some restaurants are open. Shukar Alhamdulillah. Assalamu Alaikum.
We have got a room here. It's the same as the previous one. It's a clean and nice room. They had booked a room for 2500 Afghanis. I didn't ask. I think the rate is similar.
The first thing I did here was to have a shower and get fresh. The people here are very nice. I told them that I am very tired and asked to order some food for me. Let me show you what they got for me. Kebab is in front of us. And Afghani Naan.
This will be our dinner for today. I am very tired. Let's have our dinner. And relax afterwards.
I'm already taking care of my data in the laptop behind me. Copying all the data from last couple of days. I hope you liked the vlog. I tried my best to show you this area. There were a lot of drone shots.
I liked this area a lot. Don't forget to Like, Subscribe and Share. Remember me in your prayers. See you in the next vlog. Allah Hafiz.
2024-10-06 12:57
