We just arrived in Chitral, at the base of a series of mountain villages where the Kalasha live. The Kalasha have a unique culture and are facing pressures from the surrounding Muslim community to convert. The place is gorgeous - 12,000-foot icecapped mountains in every direction. However there is no Internet service where we are going, and we will be out in the mountains for about the next four days. We also won't have any cell phone service.
Haven't had a chance to blog lately because we spent several days in the Afghan refugee camps right on the Afghan border. Peshawar was our base of operations for that, which was a little nerve-wracking, because the place is crawling with terrorists, according to about any news source I see. But we made it out.
The highlight of the trip to the Jalozai camp was interviewing a 67-year-old mujahideen freedom fighter who helped stop the Soviets in Afghanistan. He trained jihadi fighters in the 70's and 80's an is facing the prospect of being forced back into Afghanistan, which is a pretty forbidding place these days.
Anyhow, I won't be able to blog for a few days.
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