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the fastest vehicle on the road . In Pakistan , that is almost always a bus , I am convinced Pakistani bus drivers are trained on racetracks before being allowed behind the wheel of a bus .
Getting anywhere in Pakistan takes time , this is not a country for the road racer , not unless you want to end up being a hood ornament on one of the brightly painted buses
and trucks . It took us the best part of 6 hours to ride the 145 kilometres to Bisian , where we decided to stop for the night . It was starting to get dark ; we were tired , hot , hungry and above all dirty from the diesel soot pouring out the back of every poorly maintained vehicle , unsurprisingly almost all of them . Luckily , the hotel had hot water , a great restaurant next door and good company , after a good meal we slept soundly . We had planned to get to Skardu the following day to meet a Facebook friend of Dominics . It was 450 kilometres , something that would have been just a normal day ' s ride through the Australian outback , but we were no longer in that big wide land , here things work at a different pace , yet we still had hopes if we set off early in the morning . The
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