Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Afghanistan followup
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:15:03 +0530
References: <732E59D3-A846-4AA0-832A-F46E330D8360@mac.com> <3B067229-09FE-4F66-9CD7-D1ADEDDEE098@frozenlight.eu> <0101202F-7674-4CDA-B2E0-B980A64F195B@aotera.org> <A1F420E3-AE07-428A-AE66-ECC7B95FAE42@mac.com> <F2B3D732-C50A-430D-AF9E-A9B8963A30CB@aotera.org> <C53BF705-1EDF-417A-A311-2F6A614CF77E@mac.com> <0AC82DB4-BD4D-4A06-9856-C13FF8076167@aotera.org>

I would love to see that area, but I would never ever get a visa (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote:
> Thanks for looking and commenting everyone.
>
> Jayanand, it is a difficult place in more than one way. We had to ride 
> across the desert near Chilas and that was brutally hot. The scenery is 
> spectacular. More spectacular than any other alpine areas I have visited 
> in North America, Asia or Europe.
>
> Hugh,
>
> If you get the chance, it's worth the detour. There use to be an 
> unreliable flight into Gilgit (which basically only flies when the weather 
> is good enough to land on VFR rules). The hostility which is almost 
> palpable even back in 1998 was mostly south of Gilgit. Very unfortunate.
>
> Regards,
> Spencer
>
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 23:25, Hugh Thompson wrote:
>
>> Spencer - wonderful photo. ?I doubt if I can get up there, but this 
>> conveys the physical majesty of this troubled area.
>
>
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