Like the medicine bottle instructions say,

"Best taken on an empty stomach"

I have never been so sick in my life as I was after arriving in Pakistan.  I got a vicious case of food poisoning from the hotel buffet (lesson 1 - never eat buffet food) the second day I was in Karachi.  From a semi conscious condition and disintegrating under the blankets of my hotel bed I managed to phone the front desk and order an ambulance.  They loaded me up in a wheelchair and sped me off to the Agha Khan hospital where I was to spend a week with an IV drip in my arm learning the finer points of cricket, as that's all that was ever on television.  An exciting introduction to a very exciting country!  I was to spend over a year in Karachi, Pakistan and during that time I made some friendships that will last a lifetime and experienced some things that I will never, never forget.

The People

They can be crazy.  They can be deadly.  They can be serious and they can be funny.  But most of all they are extremely hospitable.

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In Hunza

Philippe and Phish

Pakistani sailing

Team Canada at Karachi Olympics

Road to Hunza

Near Lahore

Wayyy up north

The Staff

New duds

Road rage

Go Indy!

Hill climber

Border of China

Bunderboating in Karachi harbour

Mongoose & Cobra fight

Snake loses

Snake charmer

Clifton beach

Chicken tikka

Boys at Gadani Beach shipwrecking yard

Want one of my chickens?

Who needs soap?

Rock carking near Gilgit

Polo in Gilgit

Farmers

Road worker

Modeling for Shell

My roommates