Hunza people – The White Huns

The Hunza Valley is located at the northernmost tip of Pakistan, where Pakistan meets Russia and China. Its location is breathtaking; there are no less than six mountain ranges in this area. The average height of the peaks is 6,100 meters and the Rakaposhi peak is 7,600 meters high. The Hunza people live in an extremely fertile valley that is wedged by rocky outcrops.

Until now, the area was almost completely inaccessible, as the only entrance and exit was the winding path on the side of the surrounding mountains, where most of the year traffic was very risky.

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Hunza people are lonely but proud people who claim to be descendants of the Huns, the descendants of the so-called White Huns (Hephthalites). According to some assumptions, the White Huns, descendants of a group separated from the people of Attila, were Huns, who were thus related to the ancient Hungarians. The Huns are blondes, browns, reds, blacks; they have blue, green and brown eyes, and their features are strikingly different from those of Inner-Asian Turkish and southern, Indian, or Pashto-Iranian faces. These people have huge apricot groves. Apricots are dried and consumed in abundance in the sun, and they are made into alcoholic beverages called Hunza water.

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NATO base is located in Mazar-e Sharif

The Camp Marmal NATO base is located in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. The small town-scale fortress under German command almost never receives any civilians, but they made an exception with the crew of Hungaricums Around the World.

Dr. Gábor Boldizsár, Colonel, and Colonel Tibor Pálinkás gave insight into the life of soldiers, a life spent in full gear at 42 degrees away from their families in a country where bombings and armed confrontation are commonplace.

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Within the base lies the Heroes’ Wall, which is dedicated to the memory of the fallen Hungarian soldiers. Every year on the day a soldier in the service dies, the fall is commemorated at the base. The name of seven Hungarian soldiers are on this wall on a plate.

Within the base you will find shops, a hairdressing salon and even a market packed with Afghan goods. In short, it’s a city. It lives and breathes alongside Mazar-e Sharif.

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