The call of the tribe: travel in far-flung tribal lands

In pristine lands far from the beaten track, age-old ways of life survive, says Stuart Watkins.

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Last summer my children, tiring of the usual diet of Mediterranean villas and Tuscan pools, demanded to go somewhere more exciting,” says William Dalrymple in the FT. They settled on a trip to the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan, near the Afghan border. That fitted the bill.

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