Country Info
- Kabul
- Capital
- Afghani (AFA)
- Currency
- 26,813,057
- Population
- AF
- Country Code
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Afghanistan
Travel Blogs from Afghanistan
Terrigal For Dinner
Well, Arthur & I are here at Gosford & the weather is great...perfect beach weather in fact. We're heading to the fish & chip shop to enjoy a seafood dinner. Mary's hard at work & we will catch up for good old times later ...
Rain, rain, go away...
I can hear my son singing that tune in my head like he sings it! A very quick update before I head in to the showers this morning. It rained a lot yesterday and today is no exception. All night it rained, and rained, and rained. I'm about to go and find ...
Back in Bagram
After a circus at the Sharana PAX terminal last night, I finally got in to Bagram at about 0130 - less than two hours short of making the mandatory midnight briefing given once daily before we can continue on to Kuwait. The flight in the C130 was pretty ...
Last days in Kabul
... Kabul Health Club (as fancy as it sounds) for a doctor friend going on a medical camp through a remote, mountainous part of Afghanistan. Warrick presented some impressive photos from the same trip 5 years ago. The team will fly part way into ...
A Scot Abroad - Kabul 2012 - Day 6 & 7
... , another way for them to make more money...let's face it, this is probably not a cool idea, not just in Afghanistan, anywhere, Government departments can't organize crap...big government does not work...fact...so what makes them think this will ...
torky
i go to torky then i com to kabul and then i com to kandhar and i will go to mazar e sharif aand i will go to unitit state ...
Buckets of Cash
3rd September Kabul is a very small but a nice town. There are three towns in Afghanistan and all of them are about the size of Beaston or Malton. We then collected the post and looked around the bazaar and I bought some sandals. We put the for sale ...
Still in BAF
Still stuck in Bagram. Yesterday's flight didn't pan out and there were so many people yesterday only about half the people here got on that one (I was obviously not in the luck 50%). Monica got out so I'm more or less solo today waiting for a flight. ...
Been A Long Time
It's been a while since I've updated this blog, sorry about that! There hasn't been much in the way of news really. Remember the whole Groundhog day syndrome? Same things, same routines everyday...yep....more of the same. We said goodbye to a couple ...
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 ...
A description of life in Afghanistan
... a great source of information about local culture. And they like also to hear about life in NZ: I have conveyed so far that unlike Afghanistan, it is very uncommon to marry your cousin in New Zealand and we are able to choose our own husband. And yes, we ...
New Carpets
... which still left us with not too bad a profit, but not as good as I hoped. We thought it better to sell the merc in Afghanistan as in Pakistan it is difficult to change the money. I would not recommend anybody bring a car to sell in any of these countries ...
A Scot Abroad - Kabul 2012 - Days17-24
... like it...it was the quietest the room had been, all these expats digging in to an exquisite meal like it was their last supper...just as well I had the work out... Like I was saying, this is a hardship post...it is Afghanistan after ...
Afghanistan
... too much detail about what I have experienced out here because like the mountains or the ruins, without perspective a false picture of Afghanistan will be presented. Since I have been in Afghanistan I have dug up a mine, lived within a few hundred metres ...
First stop: Kabul
I arrived in Kabul and was invited to a lunch party in the parking lot of the UNODC (Office for Drugs and Crime) where I had a chance to dance with the local police officers and construction workers. A good start to the holiday. ...
Stick out like a sore thumb
Today is my first full day in Afghanistan and everything about me screams foreigner but even more so tourist. A foreigner in Afghanistan, especially an American, has become common sight but it is obvious that I am new to the area. I have never been ...
Cold nights at 2600m
1st September Did some shopping and went to the post and got some money changed. Everybody wants to change money but except for Kabul you get a better rate at the bank. Then round to the post where I got one letter from Sally. Here we had a Pakistani ...
Eh?
We're 'so' Canadian, eh? I mean, check out the sign for this little café near where I work....it's called the KAF , eh? Too funny. This little spot has some light snacks and smokes we can buy. They serve fresh coffee for free and always someone cheery ...
Herat – Afghanistan’s heart of the Sil
... , 5 of the original 20 minarets still impressively tower over the city Gazar Gah, one of the holiest places in Afghanistan, dedicated to the 11th century saint and Poet Khoja Abdullah Ansari, receiving hundreds of pilgrims daily. Nearby Takht-e Safar is a ...
A rainy day in KAF
Last night the rain started. You know what rain smells like when it hits a lot of hot earth? That nice rain shower smell? That was everywhere last night, very lovely. I was able to get internet in the tent and updated the blog. I went to sleep ...
Kabul
we will fly from Pakistan to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. We will only spend a few days here before making our way up, either by land or by plane to Dushanbe in Tajikstan, depending on safety at the time of our trip. If Kabul is deemed ...
Touring the KAF
There are some things that I am not able to take pictures of, so some of my photos may seem lame, but that's for security reasons. Some military vehicles would be o.k., and we are doing our best not to take pictures of soldiers faces and with their name ...