Afghanistan

When we traveled through this amazing and beautiful country, there was peace, the king was still in Kabul, but things were about to change according to the owner of the guesthouse in Kandahar where we could park the car in the yard. He was obviously a well-connected and influential man, who did not want to elaborate on his predictions. 

"Bakshish"

Road between Kabul and Kandahar

The last rays of sunshine in a Kabul market shine on a poor man

Catching the afternoon sun at the mosque

Old men enjoying their tea

Typical decorated Afghan trucks at a check point

Village along Kandahar-Kabul road

Cold & wet at the checkpoint Kandahar-Kabul road

Caravanserai

Kabul

A few historical photos with views of a 'sleepy' Kabul before the Russian & the American lead interventions

View of Kabul at the river

Corner fruit shop at the Kabul river

Kabul with the last snow on the dome of a mosque

These men had their beards shaven/trimmed and dressed in their best clothes to get their photo taken at the Kabul Bazaar. I asked to take one too

Bamiyan Valley

Ger and an Afghan friend at the bigger of the two Buddhas

Caves in the walls of the cliff with the Buddhas

The bigger Bhuddha from below

Fellow travelers chatting in one of the caves

Shahr-I-Zohak citadel, Bamyan Valley

At full moon

View of the valley from one of the caves

Khyber Pass

'By order'

One of the fortified villages along the road

The last bends before the Pakistan plains

Landscapes

Lonesome traveller returning home with his donkeys

Winding road

Band-I-Amir

Eager to get his photo taken

Peaceful landscape

Band-I-Amir

A man riding his donkey, while his wife under a bur qua follows him on foot at a few hundred meters

Band-I-Amir lake

Band-I-Amir area