Rawalpindi - Pakistan day 70

After 29 hours in the train we arrived yesterday evening in Rawalpinda. The train crossed Pakistan from east to west. I had the feeling of Michael Palin crossing a whole country by train. Along the ride we saw small villages without paved roads, people in mudhouse. We saw trucks crawling trough the mountains looking like works of art. With musical horns, poetry, dangling chains, decorated windows etc. We saw Afghans living in shacks, tents. We saw children playing in mud, dust and dirt. We saw waterbuffalows in dirty water. We saw dustie but impressive mountains near Quetta and green fields coming closer to Multan. The train made a kind of u track covering Multan and Lahore on the same trainride. During the ride we drunk chai, had lunch and we looked at the amazing landscape unfolding to us. We played some boardgames with Pakistanis. Talked about the differences between Pakistan and Europe. The people we met are very friendly and hospitable. I will only still 14 days in Pakistan but that is truly not enough. I'm sure I will be back. This afternoon I will take a night bus to Gilgit and Karimabad in the north of Pakistan.