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Country Info
- Capital:
- Kabul
- Currency:
- Afghani (AFA)
- Population:
- 26,813,057
- Country Code:
- AF
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My Basic Need
Oct 14, 2009 (1 photos) With death and despair so prevalent, this place, with it's keen sense of irony looming behind everything good - where shortly after commenting on the fine weather, a storm ensues - where silence is often discouraged by heavy arms fire bound for the ... |
Home Sweet Home
Jul 20, 2007 This morning I finaly moved into my place. I haven't come to much, just lots of bare wall, I at least it's my own space. The cats are loving it. I've since interviewed and appointed a security guard who has moved into my guard house in the ... |
More Panjshir and Sabz Sanga (Friend's vineyard)
Aug 4, 2007 (20 photos) Here are some more photos of Panjshir taken from another camera. In addtion, there are photos from my friend's vineyard where we stopped off on the way back and feasted on fresh grapes. |
Emeralds from Panjshir valley, Afghanistan
Jun 22, 2006 ... navigation I divided it in five parts: 1) Introduction: A rapid presentation of Afghanistan gem wealth, and of the potential given by the free ... |
Trip to Kandahar (southern of Afghanistan)
Feb 22, 2009 ... full of tiny jungle estates made to suit the weather which I can't even remember the names. Many think that Afghanistan is hot and mountainous but they are wrong because most of the places are cold and snowing though in ... |
Happy Birthday
Jul 11, 2007 (17 photos) 11 days into my arrival in Kabul and I celebrate my birthday with a 7kg cake lemon cake!! My colleagues and I went for a picnic to Lake Qargha in the afternoon. The day ended with dinner with friends at a pub called the Gandomack. |
Universal Magnetics
Jul 6, 2009 (1 photos) Even bruised and peeling cores pieced together by fragments of survival and suppressed hope can yield to this - when sorrows are sent away and replaced by inflections of purpose in a song...lest constraint, an ease comes when the rhythm begins. ... |
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A day in the warmth of village people
Jul 20, 2007 I was invited to have lunch with my colleague's wife's family in her village of Paaghman. It is 30 mins drive from Kabul with spectacular views of the country side on the way and there. A number of Aunts live along one street with huge houses ... |
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For Shquipe
May 13, 2008 Shquipe is a dear friend. We started off as penpals when I lived in Kabul and she was very excited when I decided to change my career to development, she was so excited fo rme. When I was planning my trip to Nepal, she kept insiting I & ... |
Panjshir Valley
Aug 3, 2007 (28 photos) We drove to the famous Panjshir Valley in the North about 100km north of Kabul for a picnic and a visit to the mausoleum of Masoud Ahmed Shah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shah_Massoud http://www.massoudhero.com/English/lion.html |
Inspiration Information
Jun 13, 2009 (4 photos) Your brooding eyes drift toward the hills, somewhere in the direction of oblivion and better days. & ... |
The Blown up Buddah's of Bamiyan
Aug 10, 2008 (66 photos) ... seemed to be) peaceful little town, basically in the middle of nowhere. (the next day we saw the Hamid Karzai's (Afghanistan's Presidents) helicopter arrive and everywhere was blocked off by roadblock, this may explain the amount of guns?) Its hard to ... |
(Still) Fostering Fettle
Nov 9, 2009 (1 photos) There is an irregular composure here in these men, a calm that I have never seen before, a lack of need to validate strength because it is implied. While there are collective similarities in all of their stories, the trials of destitution and poverty, of ... |
My Journal
Sep 21, 2007 (13 photos) My deployment journal and pictures can be accessed through my website www.kbeaulieu.com |
Street views of Kabul
Jul 30, 2007 (11 photos) Here are some pics taken from the main road in Kalola Pushta, the area of Kabul where I live. I was out shopping and snapping! |
Landmine museum and city walls
Aug 5, 2008 (59 photos) ... different types of mines made all over the world from Iran to USA to England (basically everywhere except Afghanistan). Another one I saw (nick named the jumping mines) used a small internal diaphragm as the detonator, once triggered ... |
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Beautiful Bam-i -iamir
Aug 13, 2008 (70 photos) ... than the highest mountain in the United Kingdom. These however are no normal lakes, they are (for me at least) Afghanistan's most outstanding natural sight. They are a series of 6 linked lakes, their deep blue jewel colour like something from another ... |
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One week flew past
Jul 5, 2007 It's been one week. I'm already in the thick of it at work - well the boss went on vacation today so there was a lot to handover. Met lots of people, ate lots of business lunches and social dinners... Shopping for furniture and ... |
My favourite cafe
Jul 28, 2007 (5 photos) Here are some pics of my favourite cafe in Kabul called Cabul or in places Kabul Cafe. I have my Dari lessons here 3 times a week and I love coming for brunch here occassionally during the weekend. |
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A home in the making
Jul 24, 2007 (11 photos) I finally got my personal belongings that I shipped from Dubai released from Kabul Customs after 19 days of procedures and the involvement of three ministries. Our admin person from the office was struggling with it all. I finally had to pay $ ... |
Careless End
Aug 13, 2009 All of the words, all of the stories, all of the newspaper articles... ...all of the scars, all of the tears, all of those heads hung low, and still I never knew. Suspended in a state of shock, the truth of previously semi-known hardships, and a ... |
Kabul Afghanistan February 2008
Feb 26, 2008 (26 photos) ... course bombed out by the Mujadeen and then the Taliban took over with more bombing, including this wonderful museum. The Afghanistan National Museum had the largest collection of artifacts in Central Asia. From 2nd Century and earlier. It now holds ... |
Burkas, Beards and Land Mines
Jan 16, 2007 (18 photos) ... arrive, so we enter a house next door that is serving lunch - we sit on carpets on the floor with travelers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan and have tea and bread. In this atmosphere, I tend to stick out just a little bit, which is to ... |
Kite Flying
Aug 10, 2007 (14 photos) Kite flying is a big thing in this country. When I announced the 'Kite Flying' event at my place, people said "...but women don't fly kites..." Well I was set to prove them wrong and the photos are evidence of how much fun we had... |
Looking at some of the best scenery in the world
Sep 29, 2009 (23 photos) ... of the Pamirs. He is not wrong. I follow the river Pyandzh all day from Khorog to Kalaikhum and the border with Afghanistan. The river starts tumbling and surging down, an emerald green flecked with the whites created at rapids. The mountains tower as they ... |
A Close Call in Kabul
Aug 18, 2008 (8 photos) ... pictures as I wasn't planning on writing it. But after looking back over my diary and some notes I took while I was in Afghanistan I have decided to extract a couple of short tales of what I got up to other than the things described before. Some are funny ... |
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Sri Lankan Night
Jul 19, 2007 My friend gave us a Sri Lankan feast never to be forgotten!! Once again, an evening to stimulate both the taste buds and the other senses as I was introduced to some fascinating people. I met this French lady who runs 'Sports with Borders' at ... |
Shir Khan border - boat crossing into Tajikistan
Sep 16, 2006 Boat trip into Tajikistan... met some afghanis that study in Dushanbe - fortunately one of them spoke english and I was able to share a 3 hour taxi with them into the capital. the most exciting part of the journey was not the scenery, but the "pit ... |