Afghan Market and A Japanese Couple

26th of September:

 

We are starting early in the morning to the afghan market. On the way to there, we give a ride to a young lady, Gulia, her mother, 20 kg of apples, and two 10 l pots of tomatoes. The Afghan market is in the "Nowhere". Both sides pass the checkpoint of there country and in between there is the market. We have to leave the passport at the check point at the bridge which leads to "nowhere". One side of the market is filled with Tajik and the other with Afghans. The difference is really obvious. One side especially the man wears Addidas and .... and the other side traditional Afghan clothing, which fits much more in this landscape (:). But I have to say that most of the women at the Tajik side also wear their nice traditional clothing from the Wakhan valley.

 

We get some tomatoes from Gulias mother and buy some other stuff eggs, carrots, ..... Some stone to paint the eyes, Gulia suggest we also have to buy. She speaks good Englich and invites us to visit her in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan.

 

We leave the market and the border check point wants to give Kotomi a wrong Japanese passport. Nakamura San? It seems to be a married couple from Japan on the market. We decide to wait for them. After some while they come. I suggest lets make camp together and have some Japanese food. We get there backpacks from the guesthouse and go on in the direction of Khorog. We find a nice place and make our camp. Nice time for all of us and especially for Kaori and Pom Jaskun. For them it is the first time to sleep in a tent. He travelled a lot. Before they left Japan they also just married and he finished a one year study about wood construction for temples. That reminds me on my cousin since he always wanted to have some special tool which I could not find. But Jaskun promised to visit Germany and then I can bring them together. He can organise the tool he said (:).

 

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