DAY 75 - GIRISHK

75) SATURDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 1977 : 451KMS. - GIRISHK

We left HERAT about 11:00 am along the Asian Highway through  AZIZABAD .  On both sides of the road was desert  and no sight of any tree, except  grass bushes looking like dry thorns .  On some parts there were rock mountains. We passed DELARAM,  an Oasis . Not far from the city area, we saw  tents of Nomads  and their camels grazing in the distance.

Desert oasis - Photo : panoramio.com / Bing images search

From DELARAM to GIRISHK, it is desert area  and  it was very windy  but not very hot. On the right side of the road from DILARAM to GIRISHK, it is an unexplored desert  as stated in ESCAP 's Asian Highway Map 1975.

Desert - Photo : Bing images search

We did not see any tree nor house and people along the way. It seemed that we were driving alone on the road, once in a while there was a car coming from the opposite  direction on the other side of the road.

 

Deserted desert - Photo : inpattayanow.com / Bing images search

The road was almost deserted.  It was nearly sunsetting time before arriving GIRISHK that the atmosphere  made me feel  unreasonably homesick .

 

Sunsetting in the desert - Photo - Karl Bunyan / Bing images search

We arrived GIRISHK in the evening. It seemed to be a large oasis in the desert.  There is a  river running through it.   

Photo : Jetson Nguyen (thephotoforum.com) / Bing images search

Here again, we had made friends with an Afghan, earning his living by dyeing fabric and yarn for carpet woven in the bazaar, at a restaurant .  With his kind hospitality, he invited us to stay in his home(again), which was  a simple built house of mud mixed with hay as construction materials.