Khyber Pass, Peshawar

The reason they join you is security. Don't forget this is Tribal Area. In this area there was (and still is) a lot of smuggling (drugs, weapons,...) and these actions aren't without risk and danger.
As we pass the gate, we see the Jamrud fort, we are not allowed to make a photo, so next photo comes from a tourist brochure.

Khyber Pass
This is the road from Peshawar to Kabul in Afghanistan, is one of the highlights of this region.

The people who live along this Khyber Pass are the Phanthans (also called Pushtuns or Puktuns). These combative Phanthans have always considered themselves as a special race, a chosen people. They never were beaten; no one ever managed to subject them. The Mongols, the Afghans, The Sikhs, the British and the Russians, thy all had the worst of it. Our guide described the Phanthans as aggressively elegant, colourfully attired, hospitable and considerate, fierce in enmity, kind in friendship, and a strongly self-possessed people who are punctilious over religion yet fond of pleasure.
This legendary Pass has played an important role on the trading roads from India via Pakistan to Afghanistan and Persia.

The Khyber bazaar, is full of doctors, dentist and lawyers, you just can't
miss the dentist as you can see their big billboards where they are advertising with giant dentures. This is also the departure place for the busses to the Khyber Pass and Kohat.

Afghanistan from the Khyber Pass.

Looking towards Pakistan from the Khyber Pass, 1998

Panorama picture of the Khyber Pass, on the right you see the pass and a bit higher the railway with some tunnels.

The Khyber Pass railway goes through 30 tunnels and crosses 92 bridges but nowadays it can be used only for a small part because the rails are gone
due to landslides.