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Off the Beaten Track
Baghpakh
Baghpakh is different from the rest of the country in one important respect: It has electricity. Local eccentric DJ Raki, a spindoctor-cum-backyard scientist, has managed to power a generator for the entire community using local yak excrement, and so it is that Baghpakh is making soundwaves that can be felt as far away as the capital. It is increasing in population and popularity, and now a formerly comatose Bakpakhistan is feeling an underground pulse that didn't spring from decaying nuclear facilities.
The 'global village' of Baghpakh is a place where unclipped toenails, dreadlocks and Central Asia on a Shoestring-readers meet under the moonlit star-canopy to lovingly desert-doof to the tribal beats of Raki. The use of mild drugs is prohibited in this desert oasis, where the enlightened truth of pure opium is the law. So sit back and relax - really relax - and listen to Raki's ghostly samples of wailing yaks, layered with traditional pounding Bhakphakic bone-beats on high rotation. Reaching the oasis may be tricky - Bakpahkistan has no public transport system - but look out for a band of wandering pilgrims in thermal underwear and follow them into the desert steppes west of Hikinboot; Raki will come to you. Take water, if you can find it.
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