At the Khyber Pass

A lesson about how departing conquerors were treated by Afghans: “On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reached the British sentry post at Jalalabad, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat from Kabul. He told of a terrible massacre in the Khyber Pass, in which the Afghans gave the defeated Anglo-Indian force and their camp followers no quarter.”

In contrast the time of this photo was one of peace in 1966 when we headed through this pass and on to Jalalabad, Peshawar and Lahore by this famous route in our VW Beetle.

Please send along any old photos of your own from the interesting places you’ve been.