Uzbekistan+Tajikistan
| Afghanistan 2009 | UAE
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| Friendship Bridge Balkh Mazar-e Sharif Mazar-Panjshir Panjshir Valley Kabul |
Friendship Bridge
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| The Friendship Bridge |
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| Crossing the Oxus Afghanistan on the left, Uzbeistan on the right. |
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| Part of a vast herd of tankers. Transhipping oil off trains from Uzbekistan. |
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| A barren landscape |
Balkh
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| Central citadel?? |
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| Walls |
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| Wall fragment. |
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| City wall. |
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| Wall + Sakhi Danishjo |
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| Our Nissan Patrol Super Safari 4500 |
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| 9th c. "Nine Dome Mosque" The first mosque in Afghanistan. |
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| Lush vegetation, distant walls |
Mazar-e Sharif
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| Shrine of Ali |
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| Mosque(?) at Shrine of Ali |
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| Shrine of Ali |
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| Shrine of Ali |
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| Shrine of Ali |
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| Tile factory: grinding tiles to size |
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| Tile Factory: Applying glazes Note scrap metals in foreground, to be ground down for glazes. |
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| Sakhi Danishjo |
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| Kiln |
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| Livestock market |
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| Gentlemen wanting their pictures taken! |
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| Livestock market |
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| Forging an axe head |
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| Old Soviet APCs |
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| Old Soviet APCs |
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| At Samir Walid Guesthouse |
Mazar-Panjshir
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| A camel train |
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| Rock-carved Stupa, Samangan |
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| Either very dry or very green. |
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| Samangan buddhist caves. |
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| Base of rock-cared Stupa With "Tony" from Connecticut. |
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| Buddhist carved cave. |
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| Afghan rice! |
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| Afghan Police APC Heading towards Surkh Kotal (?) |
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| Above Salang Tunnel |
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| Salang Tunnel Entrance |
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| Just South of Salang Tunnel |
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| Central plain. |
Panjshir Valley
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| Panjshir Valley Entrance |
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| Fertile lower valley |
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| Lower Valley Village |
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| Wreck of Soviet tank |
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| Village & Fields, from above Massoud's Tomb |
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| Lower Valley, from above Massoud's Tomb |
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| Upper Panjshir Valley |
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| Scotsman in Upper Panjshir |
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| Cattle threshing grain |
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| Road workers at the Parian roadhead |
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| Innocent Afghans with Crazed Scotsman The bearded "man with five wives" is third from the right. |
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| Improvized ghaychak |
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| Ford across the Panjshir |
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| Temporary road blockage While the excavator gets a tire replaced. |
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| Roadworkers, prying out rocks loosened by explosives |
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| Rescue! |
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| Massoud's Tomb |
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| Massoud's Tomb |
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| Relics of Empire |
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| Massoud |
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| Scotsman at Massoud's Tomb |
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| The Tomb itself. |
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| Fine old Soviet tank. (Only one minor hole.) |
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| Scotsman in ex-Soviet tank |
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| Turret hole that slew the tank |
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| Ex-Soviet tank & Katyusha corral. |
Kabul
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| Mausoleum of Nadir Shah |
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| Kabul River, from TV hill. |
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| Surveillance tethered dirgible |
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| Bala Hissar From TV hill |
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| Former Royal Palace |
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| Kabul Museum |
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| Kabul Museum: Buddha |
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| Kabul Museum: Kafiristan Idol |
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| Kabul Musum: Kafiristan Statue |
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| OMAR Landmine Museum |
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| Assorted Landmines Including "Butterfly" types ("PFM-1") on lower right. |
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| Stake Mines |
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| The Landmine Octopus |
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| Landmine School |
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| "Pig" Kabul Zoo |
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| Afghan Police |
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| Dusty, dry Afghanistan From my Kam Air flight to Dubai |
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Uzbekistan+Tajikistan
| UAE
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