Dush like Dusche

Matthieu: "What's worse than McDonald's? McDonald's that just went through X-ray..."

As you can see our dinner at Sharjah airport was among the best the Middle East has to offer. I'll make a long trip short and recap our long trip to Dushanbe in images:


Today (note = 4 days ago), after having caught up with some sleep, we are already back to our 'normal' life 'on the road'. Stocked the fridge, went for a social outing to meet some of the local NGO expat community (an Italian, an Iranian, a French, an Austrian and an English girl with a puppy - much to Iluka's delight), set up meetings, got a local mobile number (+99 293 4100876) and of course: finally found a place with WiFi to upload all this.

Next step is to figure out how to get to Khorog in the Pamir Mountains, our home for the coming 2 months. Options: A flight, which due to the rainy bad weather doesn't look like it's gonna leave its bumpy runway any time soon. 16 hrs by car over treacherous terrain (exciting prospect with a 2-year old) or the old AFK (Aga Khan Foundation) helicopter (wishful thinking rather - why would they let us fly as non employees...)

PS: To better view the image on the left, right click or open in separate window