A HITCHHIKER ON THE ROOF RACK?
I’ve joked about it previously, but now we’ve actually done it! Not long after turning off the roughly paved Pamir Highway for the route to the Wakhan Valley via the Khargush Pass, we spotted a walker ahead of us.
“Oh look, a hitchhiker”, said Sylwia. “No, which strongly recommends against attempting to hitchhike through the Pamirs given the very long wait you could be in for. We weren’t even on the Pamir Highway - we’d departed it for a more remote route and to top it off it was mid-October, which is after the end of the main season for visitors to this region. The odds of a hitchhiker catching a ride on this route were pretty slim indeed, yet there he was, and there we were too.
