Meeting other travellers can be tireing in the respect that most of them ask the same questions and most of the time the answers might determine whether the talk goes on or not.
A friend and I thought about alternative first questions to begin a talk between travellers. What do you like to do the most in your life. Where are you in your daydreams. Tell me a story.
Because the most loved of all travellers are for me the ones that can connect a story to their travelling. My friend's story was that he loves to learn new things all the time. Mine was maybe that I don't want to accept fear as a determining boundary for myself and the search for something behind the news. Another traveller was travelling to mediate in Burma and another one cycled to a friend in Singapor to visit him. All these little stories found their way to the campspace in Islamabad.
There are just certain spots in Iran aswell as in Pakistan where overland-travellers seem to gather, exchange, find other people to travel with or re-meet. The camping place in Islamabad is certainly such a place. Next to the Rose and Jasmine garden where you can take a nice evening walk and the Aabpara market with fries wrapped in newspapers or mango milkshakes with a extra bowl of ice cream. The campingspace is just a small piece of green grass and old trees, some toilets and a cold shower, unfriendly personals, who seem just able to say “stay or leave today?“ “ 50 rupees“ (understandable in the case that the campingspace should get government support and doesn't see anything due to corruption. Even the electricity for the electric wire is taken illegal as there's no money for it).
Sometimes this little piece of land can mean home. When a good group of people gathers, sharing chai and ideas, playing tarot at night and cooking together near the caravans and tents. Then questions more than the „where from/where to“ can be asked, or can be skipped with a good story.
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