Re: Back to Lahore

Posted by Mike McDermott on Mar 25, 2013; 2:02am
URL: http://sundownersadventures.385.s1.nabble.com/Back-to-Lahore-tp5706609p5706665.html

Amen to all that, Vicar.

Following up on your post, I came across this website:

http://www.ibtimes.com/what-happened-hippie-trail-legacy-asia-overland-route-701219

Apparently we may have catalyzed the anti-western reaction in Afghanistan, the Russian invasion, the rise of the Mujahadeen, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the defeat of the West, and the imminent nuclear Armageddon.

Oops.

Hey, mannn ... peace, mannnn .....

It's all your fault, Simon Arms.

There is something potentially huge happening here now, though. The Chinese have just bought the management rights of a port on Pakistan's coast called Gwardar. Turning the Karakoram Highway into an all weather road will join the Silk Road with the coast and put China in a very strategic place re oil supplies to the East.

I note that the first place visited by the new Chinese ruler was Russia.

The Hippie Trail may be dead, but the Great Game is still very much  game on.