Uzbekistan+Tajikistan

UAE

Afghanistan 2009

  Friendship Bridge   Balkh   Mazar-e Sharif   Mazar-Panjshir   Panjshir Valley   Kabul

Friendship Bridge

The Friendship Bridge

Crossing the Oxus Afghanistan on the left, Uzbeistan on the right.

Part of a vast herd of tankers. Transhipping oil off trains from Uzbekistan.

A barren landscape

Balkh

Central citadel??

Walls

Wall fragment.

City wall.

Wall + Sakhi Danishjo

Our Nissan Patrol Super Safari 4500

9th c. "Nine Dome Mosque" The first mosque in Afghanistan.

Lush vegetation, distant walls

Mazar-e Sharif

Shrine of Ali

Mosque(?) at Shrine of Ali

Shrine of Ali

Shrine of Ali

Shrine of Ali

Tile factory: grinding tiles to size

Tile Factory: Applying glazes Note scrap metals in foreground, to be ground down for glazes.

Sakhi Danishjo

Kiln

Livestock market

Gentlemen wanting their pictures taken!

Livestock market

Forging an axe head

Old Soviet APCs

Old Soviet APCs

At Samir Walid Guesthouse

Mazar-Panjshir

A camel train

Rock-carved Stupa, Samangan

Either very dry or very green.

Samangan buddhist caves.

Base of rock-cared Stupa With "Tony" from Connecticut.

Buddhist carved cave.

Afghan rice!

Afghan Police APC Heading towards Surkh Kotal (?)

Above Salang Tunnel

Salang Tunnel Entrance

Just South of Salang Tunnel

Central plain.

Panjshir Valley

Panjshir Valley Entrance

Fertile lower valley

Lower Valley Village

Wreck of Soviet tank

Village & Fields, from above Massoud's Tomb

Lower Valley, from above Massoud's Tomb

Upper Panjshir Valley

Scotsman in Upper Panjshir

Cattle threshing grain

Road workers at the Parian roadhead

Innocent Afghans with Crazed Scotsman The bearded "man with five wives" is third from the right.

Improvized ghaychak

Ford across the Panjshir

Temporary road blockage While the excavator gets a tire replaced.

Roadworkers, prying out rocks loosened by explosives

Rescue!

Massoud's Tomb

Massoud's Tomb

Relics of Empire

Massoud

Scotsman at Massoud's Tomb

The Tomb itself.

Fine old Soviet tank. (Only one minor hole.)

Scotsman in ex-Soviet tank

Turret hole that slew the tank

Ex-Soviet tank & Katyusha corral.

Kabul

Mausoleum of Nadir Shah

Kabul River, from TV hill.

Surveillance tethered dirgible

Bala Hissar From TV hill

Former Royal Palace

Kabul Museum

Kabul Museum: Buddha

Kabul Museum: Kafiristan Idol

Kabul Musum: Kafiristan Statue

OMAR Landmine Museum

Assorted Landmines Including "Butterfly" types ("PFM-1") on lower right.

Stake Mines

The Landmine Octopus

Landmine School

"Pig" Kabul Zoo

Afghan Police

Dusty, dry Afghanistan From my Kam Air flight to Dubai

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