Introducing Shatial
From the road, Shatial is an ad hoc collection of serais, minibuses and swarms of idle men (looking for casual work). Check out the petroglyphs below the bazaar, near the Indus bridge (to Darel). They include a detailed Buddhist tableau and many inscriptions and travellers’ names, pecked into the rocks from the 1st century AD onwards. (There is more of this extraordinary ancient graffiti along the road from here to Chilas.)
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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by pq 14 March 2007
I felt safe everywhere I went in West Africa, but that may be because I didn't go through any big cities at all - Ziguinchor in Senegal…
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