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Bakpakhistan

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According to the locals, the best thing about life in Bakpakhistan is dying. The way these people make adversity an attractive cultural trait leaves even the Irish for dead. For those still breathing (albeit with some difficulty), running from muggers, rock climbing to escape the rebel blockades on the roads into Hikinboot, and rug shopping are the favourite pursuits of travellers. Locals enjoy themselves by ekeing out a subsistence life, scrounging just to put food on the table and drinking the distilled power-plant sludge they quaintly call 'vodka'. Since the arrival of the 'independent traveller' crowd, locals are coming to grips with haggling too.


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