This photo always makes me laugh. It's me, Nikki, and Didja in Darra, Pakistan, in 1998. We were on an 8-week Dragoman trip from Kathmandu to Damascus, and we visited a town where the primary business was making knock-off guns. The guy behind us is Sultan.
We giggled a lot as we adopted a Charlie's Angels pose with these weapons of medium-level destruction. The locals laughed at us too.
I just scanned in another photo to show the reality of the situation--all our cameras and tourist junk are just off to the side.
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way to get these through customs.
Well, for the record, there's only one American in that photo. There's a Brit and a Kiwi and me.
I've heard of that town! I lived in Pakistan for a year and a half a good while ago, and one of my classmates (American, with avid love of guns and hunting) had visited Peshawar with his family and also when to this town in the area where they made guns. Like AK47s and all that kind of stuff that I really don't know a thing about.
And they looked at them, and got to test them out on the hillside, and of course they had to tell the story when they got back.
That was in, um, 2000?
Yeah, the guns probably mostly end up being used by the Taliban and tribal leaders.
Darra. That's it. I couldn't remember for a while and was too lazy to go look it up on IGoUGo.com, where I wrote a story about it in... 2000? But the name of the town was Darra, and getting there involved being smuggled in via the back of a covered truck.
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