IT”S not quite the end of the earth but the Khyber Pass feels like it. Not only that, getting there is an out-of-this-world experience.
A 52km stretch running through the Hindu Kush mountains that separate Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Khyber Pass was used as a strategic gateway as far back as c. 325BCE, when Alexander the Great and his army marched through it to reach the plains of India.
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