A journey of 40 hours with approx net 90 minutes of stopover in total - In single cab pick-up a weapon carrying guard was tailed from Shahdad Kot by the RBOD project officer, we were reluctant but had to comply with request. Started at 9.30 PM from Karachi I stayed in rear seat & resting knowing the day ahead will drain me out. Via Sukkar we reached shahdad kot at 7.30 am pictures starts from Shahdad Kot
It is Highway M-8 Total of 892 Kms the pictures are from stretch between Ratodero & Khuzdar
Ratodero - Khuzdar stretch is only 243 KMS, either ends are almost finished & metalled. The 110 KM major track is unpaved to date Thanx to PPP Govt which stopped funds. click the PDF link in above & check M8 at page 10 - The mountain range in between is a Black hole for any type of communication BUT a satellite link.
am sure many of you can figure out it is rain water stream-bed through out the track snaking around to reach mountain pass coming in next posts
Lunch break
- continued - seems my quota for photo upload has exhausted for the day -
somebody fixed it - starting to post form here again - 2nd picture below is looking up, 3rd one is looking down at the plain we covered to reach the lunch point
The Bus above starts journey at 5 pm from Khuzdar to reach Sukkar at 7 am next morning.-we reached khuzdar at 7 pm, had dinner & started at 8.00 pm from Khuzdar to Karachi reaching home at 5.45 AM. Return Journey was slow due to BUS traffic from Karachi to Quetta. Buses coaches leave KHI around 6 pm onwards to reach QTA between at 6~8 next morning. The lousy drivers have their lights aimed at 3 feet above the ground directly at approach vehicle. every Time i encountered such BUTT saheb I triggered the TWO AUX HID lamps pre targetted at bus driver side - lamps were rigged & adjusted for BUS driver side on the ride during dinner break. This Trick helped me staying on track through out and forcing bus / truck/ coaches either to hide behind the vehicle they are overtaking or dip low on the head lamps.
Very Nice Clicks.. I needed latest information about this part of country.. this is first time i came across detailed information, pictures and official data.. thank you very much Sir for taking pain in posting here..
We dont have info abt this route..thanks for sharing details..Nice clicks too pls. share more pics n details..
Great work sir,
I always wanted to see this route. Thanks to you I had some glimps. Lets hope the end to end black top road surfaces soon.
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