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Some shady looking characters 🤔
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The guy 5th from left has had enough. In fact they all look pretty bored.
Is this a grandparent / school performance day?
Taliban day out in Hunza Pakistan 😂 We were with some dignitaries from the British Embassy and a big ceremony with marching bagpipe players and a Polo match afterwards was going on, so we had to join in. It did drag on a bit but very interesting all the same. The locals were so friendly Not many tourists in that part of the world 👍🏼
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When we travel to less developed regions we take cheap reading glasses as gifts. We source these in the U.K. from cheap stores and get a selection of strengths, cases or bags for them we ask around friends for any spare they have. These two guys were so happy with their glasses and couldn’t see to read before. They don’t look so happy as it turned out they don’t like each other, although i was unaware of this when I asked them to stand together for the photo. Apparently some Christian, Muslim conflict thing 😢
On one occasion going into Guinea 🇬🇳 I had to deal with a particularly awkward senior official, who couldn’t be arsed to get out from the shade of the mango tree to stamp the relevant paperwork. When I eventually persuaded him to go to his office he was so awkward and I noticed him struggling to read my documents. I asked him if he would like glasses and his face lit up. I went back to the vehicle and collected a selection. Upon helping him choose which strength he needed he decided he wanted another case as well as he didn’t like the colour of the one it came with. 😂. A simple request and he was so happy , reading all the paperwork and more stuff he didn’t need to read just because he could.
Turns out he was a big wig in customs and immigration and he gave my his card and said to call him if I have any problems in Guinea even relating to Police or other officials. As I say what goes around comes around and I had to call in that favour. On the border with Guinea and Liberia we ran into some drunken military guys at a road block who wanted money. One quick phone call and hand the phone over to the head man and we were on our way with the military guy calling me boss and saying you can go, safe journey. Well worth the £2.50 for a pair of glasses that’s changed someone’s life 😍. The guy in the second photo we met again later in the journey into Senegal , we gave him the lonely planet book of Africa, that guy was so smart but with a poor education. I bet now he could almost quote that book word for word and would know more about all the African nations than any of us. Brilliant , that’s what makes our travels so enjoyable 😍
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