Country Info
- Kabul
- Capital
- Afghani (AFA)
- Currency
- 26,813,057
- Population
- AF
- Country Code
Kabul Slideshow
Kabul
Travel Blogs from Kabul, Afghanistan
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Close Call in Kabul
... a sports car and to put my foot down, I did. This was one very surreal moment, as I rallied through the streets of Kabul in someone elses car. Only in Afghanistan! We then went to a coffee shop for a drink where I had a good chat to AJ, he was a really ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kabul Afghanistan February 2008
... Hakim is a 2008 SAINT! She works endlessly morning to dark. Connecting with the movers and shakers of not only Kabul but the provences of Afghanistan. She is the President of Afghan Orphanages. She and her husband were granted asylum when the wars broke ...
Kabul
... your safety. The threat from kidnapping, suicide bombs, roadside bombs, indirect fire and ambush throughout Afghanistan remains. In Kabul We advise against all but essential travel to Kabul. Recent significant attacks include: On Wednesday 13 ...
Chaos is Solace
Giving way to chance during the time of seasons when the skin cracks cold and calloused, with the air a little more quiet, something tends to draw out fractions of a persons fundamental nature that were once concealed and covered in dust. It's this ...
Swimming and Golf in Afghanistan
... the earth without he use of aviation, I have ventured into some country's (such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan and Afghanistan) which appear to be much less traveled. This consequently seems to have attracted the interest and questions of more people ...
Mojitos in Kabul
... of gated restaurants and bars with armed guards, private drivers, brand new cars, and villas... nobody here actually lives in Afghanistan. In Peshawar I had to interview with the Afghani consulate to get a tourist visa. I asked him what the biggest ...
My Mission to Afghanistan
... me to interpret his name too. I offered to give him in writing the English translation of his nickname. Many nicknames in Afghanistan turn into first names; quite often Afghans choose their own last names. Chatakball is a very funny man; I said ...
change
Hey everyone afghanistan is so much fun, its a real happening place. HEHEHE just joking we are in rome! but we have a new travel journal thats much easier to read and our map works just go here ...
The airport experience
... face though. Finally, check-in malarkey out of the way I spotted a black guy, the first I've seen in Afghanistan. Accompanied by a translator, and seemingly pissed by everything around him I stopped making conversation quite quickly. The few condescending ...
Perpetual Affections
A momentary cloud cover draws apart like a curtain behind the hills and unveils another photo of yesterday’s dawn, and so too, the chorus of a new morning song remains the very same as before. While the ill-tempered birds in the trees ...
Like Ancient Times
... so many different facets of daily life that a sudden resolution is entirely impractical. While larger cities such as Kabul and Mazar-i Sharif have a little more structure and security, much of the countries population resides in smaller remote ...