While planning my next adventure, I asked Google Maps for a suggested route for walking from Pakistan to Syria.

From my irregular reading of newspapers and my reading of Karl May’s books a little while longer ago, I thought I remembered something about this route being more than just hemmed with war, terrorists, civil war, minefields, kidnappers and highwaymen. For these dangers, I was thus prepared.

But I was completely hit between the eyes by another, potentially deadly threat which only Google Maps pointed out to me:

Good that I still read this warning in time! In light of this danger, I will rather shelve the plans for this walk for now.

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