Travel Guide Peshawar

Nestled between Afghanistan and Central Asia, Peshawar saw the caravans flying through the Silk Road and the Grand Trunk Road, the invaders travelling through the mythical Khyber Pass, dreaming of conquering the subcontinent, and more recently, travelling the famous Hippies route in search of freedom. On a website that tells its journey along the Hippies route in the 1970 s, a Dutch traveller tells: «Passengers from Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass were not allowed to leave the bus, as the road crossed the banned «tribal zones». [...] In Peshawar, we were free to go out. " Attracted by the riches of the region, Macedonians, Arabs, Turks, Persian and Moghul all crossed the long winding pass that still links Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is Akbar, considered to be the founder of the Mughal dynasty, which named the town in the th century. Its name simply means "city-frontier". It is said that, in a distant time, all these passing travellers, traders, visitors and conquerors, were at the bazaar of Qissa Khwani to tell their epics about a hot tea. Today, we are surely talking about attacks, the city is at the forefront of the violence that regularly bloodshed the country. But Peshawar, tugging between the modernity and the conservative traditions of the Pashtuns who inhabit it largely, lost nothing of its fascinating character.