Mountains of Pakistan: in the land of infidels
We move through impossible slopes, with glaciers of the Hindu Kush shining through the thicket, ascending and ascending penultimate way to pass on the way to the old Kafiristan, los Valles Kalash, en el Hindu Kush in Pakistan. A hot night in a place lost in British India. A young journalist chronicles ending late at night, unexpected visit from a hobo with an incredible story. So begins the unforgettable John Huston tape, basada in a relationship of Kipling, "The Man Who Would Be King", a story where the author masterfully linked the ancient legends of lost valleys in the depths of Central Asia, ancient stories of the classics and whispered reports by British agents involved in the Great Game, the Cold War that Russian and British engaged for much of the nineteenth century through Central Asia, Tibet and India and formed much of the borders and maps we now know that part of the world.
Peachey and Dravot in search of a kingdom of their own, en busca de Kafiristan, the "land of the infidels" steps beyond the Hindu-Kush, where a hidden valleys are home to a population legendary, los Kalasha, perhaps the last witnesses of a lost tradition.
Urdu Kafiristan is an aphorism that comes to mean "Land of Infidels" and is the name that they were dream alpine valleys of the Mughals in India and Afghan Khans
Urdu Kafiristan is an aphorism that comes to mean "Land of Infidels" and is the name that they were dream alpine valleys of the Mughals in India and Afghan Khans. A "infidels" with blue eyes and fair skin, worshiping gods with classical connotations many saw, through some ways eerily similar to those of the ancient Greeks, as the remains of the lost army of Alexander, scattered throughout Central Asia after the legendary Macedonian expedition.
The truth is that, but more of a modern anthropologist continue to insist on this theory, the Kalasha are clearly Asian people, inhabitants of a mountain tremendously hostile world yet friendly. Surrounded by a sea of Muslim peoples for centuries, wine, sexual freedom of their women and a very special way of understanding life is a surprise in this region known for its fanaticism and fugitives from legend that until recently have traveled, allegedly, Osama Bin Laden como, without going any further ....
After ascending to the col it access to al valle Bumboret, with the snows of Tirich Mir before and below us the paths to the villages of the valley, heard a distant sound and known, mixed with our horses bells are sounded when descending and shouts and whistles of the carriers. And, around a bend, salute the origin of the melody, from a bone flute of a shepherd boy. The Pipes of Pan may ....
The best welcome to the valleys of the "infidels", where wine and ambrosia of a smile, one night by a campfire hearing about Barmanu, the "Snowman" local or songs about heroes dead for centuries, make us look back, who knows if even the not so mythical but more intimate, where these life forms, poor but respectful of their environment and universe itself, were part of all of us ......
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Laura Casal
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The Snowman, Bin Laden, remote villages in the mountains… Great trip, great adventure!!!
Congratulations, start with the Man Who Would Be King has been great
Laura
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MereGlass
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About the lost armies of Alexander the Great, Kalasha perhaps are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians but the thought of thinking I find fascinating.
And how little we know in the west of the villages of Central Asia… Please enter into the mystery of the eastern valleys, hopefully retain outstanding under tremendous identity for centuries.
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