Country Info
- Kabul
- Capital
- Afghani (AFA)
- Currency
- 26,813,057
- Population
- AF
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Afghanistan Slideshow
Afghanistan
Travel Blogs from Afghanistan
Trip to Kandahar (southern of Afghanistan)
... 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 ...
Universal Magnetics
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 ...
Inspiration Information
Your brooding eyes drift toward the hills, somewhere in the direction of oblivion and better days. ...
Weights and Measures
... quite some time. After several laughs and a few cups of green tea later, he began explaining what growing up in Eastern Afghanistan was like for him. As I listened to the accounts unfold, the only response I could gather up and send back ...
The Blown up Buddah's of Bamiyan
... 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
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 ...
Relevance Calling
After the remnants of a dream gradually bend to a taper, the scene of reality bleeds again full length across my peripheral – well defined nuances unfold in full view as the faltered columns of a new light peer through like flames behind the ruins ...
Symmetrical Tightrope
Here I am, standstill with a restless mind - an every so often collision course of pondering thoughts about everything and nothing in particular. It's been a hundred and nineteen consecutive days of working twelve hour ...
Sam goes to Afghanistan
... I'd say. Anyhow, after appreciating the worn interior and my very non-European looking friends I got thinking..... I'm going to Afghanistan! Understandably, I felt pretty on edge, no matter what I heard from all my friends who had been there, ...
Landmine museum and city walls
... 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 ...
Just Sayin'
If you’ve read anything I’ve written about my experience here, if you don’t consider the entire scope, I suppose it could all very well (and most likely does) come across as rather selfish. That perhaps I am simply using the ...
My Basic Need
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 ...
Beautiful Bam-i -iamir
... times higher 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 ...
Careless End
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 ...
How things can turn around
... a former commando in the Afghan army for tea and then off to a local restaurant. It was the first meat I’d eaten in Afghanistan, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s funny how when you deprive yourself of things for a little while how much ...
My Fair Game
The moon has tonight glowing like some kind of pale afternoon. It’s half past another start of December even further withdrawn from the reality I used to know, but my words again still hold silent upon the tongue like a speech for the masses ...
Burkas, Beards and Land Mines
... 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 ...
Looking at some of the best scenery in the world
... 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 ...
A Close Call in Kabul
... - 27% Hazara - 9% Uzbek - 9% Turkmen - 3% Baluchi - 2% Other - 8% - Mark Williams playing snooker in Afghanistan In the evening it was deemed unsafe to walk around although not having anything to read I often ventured to the snooker ...
Existence Preceding Thinking
Under the quietness of small industry, the distant brick and clay producers with their blackened-steel smokestacks towering above rows of vegetation and courtyards of families in motion - there's a place I can walk to and so I do everyday, where an ...
Fleeting Contradiction
The clouds above this late afternoon seem harmless, but this is no kind of silence – so false, misleading. As the crooked cardboard street signs lightly sway and the hinges of plywood doors creak against this soft breeze, it's natural to get ...
Shir Khan border - boat crossing into Tajikistan
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 ...
Lunch and rockets in Jalalabad
... a bomb in it." It seemed ridiculous - - the streets were lively, full of normal people... the threat of afghanistan seemed completely fictional. ...like a big media exaggeration. When we were driving home, Rohollah noticed a lot of government traffic ...
Transit Herat
After one week mission to kandahar i had a Stop over to heart where i didnt get much to mention though what i can recall the place seems abit safer than ...
Slandering Barber
There seems to be a global opinion that those who bear certain occupational interests also pose as models for wickedness and corruption. However, more intriguing to me are the names and titles which are regarded as derogatory yet uniquely specific ...
The Last '-Stan'
... take the valley with mechanized troops, tanks, bombers and helicopters, the Soviets desisted, soon abandoning their folly in Afghanistan all together. In the subsequent years, the valley maintained itself as the unassailable base of operations for ...
Feeling isolated
A long long walk back from the internet café followed. Most of what I passed was old bits of scrap metal and little kids playing among the waste. Occasionally I'd look back or flinch, half expecting to be shot, but it always turned out to be another ...
Kabul Afghanistan February 2008
... and of 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 ...
Kabul
... of kidnap against British nationals, including journalists and those working for Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), in Afghanistan. The security situation remains serious and the threat to Westerners from terrorist or criminal violence remains ...