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PAKISTAN

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Lahore (14/05/99)

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"Hello my friends ! I am in Pakistan today. I'm writing to you from the Alliance Française of Lahore.You won't believe it, they were waiting for me, they had seen my picture in the Pakistanese newspapers !!! (to my Indian friends : "the Pakistanis are not that bad, they are quite nice people actually"). I have been a bit sick those last days (food poisonning) but I have survived... The bike is still doing well, it will now take me to the South. Ciao, Yannick. "

  The people were very nice, all impressed by his trip. In fact, he has only seen men during his 10 days trip in Pakistan. Where were the pakistanese women? Nobody knows ... the Pakistan government had perhaps warned them against the danger of a french lover crossing the country on a motorcycle...

Queta (19/05/99)

"Asalam u alikum, I have survived the Balutchistan mountains! My Bullet and myself have suffered a lot on the dirt tracks, I even fell once (please do not translate that to my mum). Even though it was really tough, I enjoyed it a lot since it is such a beautiful area and the people are really really warm and nice (despite the kalachnikov they often carry along). If Eastern Pakistan was quite similar to India, the West side of the Indus is a completely different world. Actually, it looks more like Afghanistan with its mountains and its proud bearded men. Tommorow, I am starting the toughest part of my all journey : the Balutchistan desert. It will be 1500 kms of heat, dust & sand. Pray for me my friends... Inch Allah Yannick."

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Baloutchistan desert

  1500 km of desert, the toughest part of the journey. It really was! At 50 km from the iranian border, Yannick faced a desert storm!

  A incredible fight against the wind (the bike was tilted at 15 degrees), it was not possible to go back, the nearest village was at 70 km.

  So he had to continue straight ahead without any vision of the road (hopefully, it was completely straight...), the head against the handle!

  After one hour of fight, at 30 km from the border, the bike suddently stopped! The air filter was full of sand... The bike could not stay on the stand because of the wind... so Yannick had to seat against it and wait for the "mother nature" to calm down. Completely exhausted, alone in the middle of the desert, he felt asleep...

  After 3 hours, the noise of car waked him up. A Volkswagen van was there! It was couple of french (from Provence) coming back from Nepal!!!!!!! They used the van to protect the bike from the wind in order to clean the air filter.

  When Yannick arrived at the Iranian border (with sand everywhere, even in the nose), the pakistanese guards offered him a nice tea and a delicious meal...

  Ready to cross the border and ride to Zahedan in Iran to spend a restufl night...