Apr 4, 2007

thursday 15th, my first day in Peshawar

and first meet with guppies!!!!!!!!! So after landing, stamping passport, taking back my checked luggage, I met BM, GS and ASA at the airport..they drove me to the guest house. It is nice, big and in the garden is my favourite tree: a frangipani!
An armed guard is patrolling in front of the guest house...so i dunno if i should feel safe...or in danger, lol...
serioulsy we went to visit the nice university campus and its small archeological museum thereafter...
we went to the afghan refugee camp outside the city...and the atmosphere is out of time! there are small squared clay houses in rows, and smalls shops where men are working, women are passing by wrapped in their burqa and children learn how to catch a truck running....as soon as they are big enough to walk...
We had lunch in a fine restaurant where i met a pashto singer, that i knew from listening intensively to batkhela.com prior to go to peshawar...i tasted brain curry...lol in mad cow countries it is now strictly forbidden...so i consider it a priviledge...and then also some green tea flavoured with cardamon...
at night we went to the market that is a little more crowded after dark...and i enjoyed some typical dish standing at a street stall...
then we met in the street Wran Alak..so went for a nice fresh mango juice somewhere...delicious!!!!!
finally we went to drink some soda flavoured with lemon and black salt....eeeeeeekkkk, that tastes so like rehydration drink taken in India when I was sick....but it was somewhat good anyway...

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