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  • Tossing Watermelons in Tajikistan

    Fancy a watermelon? Visit Dushanbe's market in Tajikistan in late July, and you won’t be able to move for melons. Melons, melons, melons: as far as the eye can see. The Tajiks don’t seem to mind though, they relish tossing melons from truck to pile...

  • The Roof of the World Is in Afghanistan

    Remote and isolated, the Wakhan Corridor in northeast Afghanistan is blissfully far from the troubles and conflict that concern the rest of the country. Think Asterix's small Gaul village in the middle of the Roman Empire, only real and without druids...

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