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Travel Blogs from Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan
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Burkas, Beards and Land Mines
... , as well as low-cost latrines that they people were taught to construct. The next 3 days I travel around the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif to evaluate hand pumps that have been in installed in deep wells for drinking water. The pumps are well-designed ...
Mazar-i Sharif
... distress and offers his blanket, which we gratefully accept until the sun begins to warm up the bus. By the time we arrive in Mazar-e Sharif eleven hours later we both have colds. Sure it's just a common ailment, but it sure takes the glow off our ...
An Oasis of Calm and Beauty
Today we spent the day seeing Mazar-el-Sharif. Mazar used to be a tiny little town, dominated by its neighbor, Balkh, but in the 14th century a local man suggested that he had a vision that Hazrat Ali was buried in Mazar. A shrine was built and began to ...
How leaving makes you never want to return
Today we left Samarkand to cross the border out of Uzbekistan into Afghanistan. Uzbekistan has been a blast and we have seen some amazing sights, but we are ready for a new challenge (Afghanistan). We set off bright and early, steeling ourselves for ...
Mazar-E Sharif – Balkh
Beautiful blue skies, bright sun shine and snow caped mountains on our 430km drive to Mazar-e Sharif, in north Afghanistan. Crossing the Hindu Kush, using the Salang Tunnel (3363m) which is the only road from Kabul, it was built by the Russians in the ...
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