Afghanistan

After our Peace Corps time in Tonga, Meg and I spent seven months taking the long way home across Asia.  We spent three weeks in Afghanistan in late April/early May of 1970.  The people were kind and courteous and respectful and we felt welcomed.  In the cities, we saw many professional women, generally not wearing burquas.  From what we could tell, the Afghans were moderate in their practice of Islam. Sadly the invasion by the Soviet Union started the long downfall of this people into the control of a minority fanatic Islamists. Their religion has be terribly distorted and there will be nothing but terror and suffering for the innocent.

Mazar i Shariff, Mazar i Shariffmosque,Afghanistan
Mazar i Shariff, Afghanistan, Afghan children
Mazar i Shariff, Afghanistan
Mazar i Shariff, Afghanistan
Mazar i Shariff, Afghanistan, Afghan children
Greek feature Afghan girl, Afghan children
Afghan bus
Afghan bus
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Bamiyan buddha
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Bamiyan buddha, Afghan children
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Bamiyan buddha
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Bamiyan buddha
buzkashi, Afghanistan, Bamiyan
buzkashi, Afghanistan, Bamiyan
Afghan worship
Kabul city wall
Tashqurghan, Kholm Afghanistan
Tashqurghan, Kholm Afghanistan
Tashqurghan, Kholm Afghanistan
Tashqurghan, Kholm Afghanistan
Tashqurghan, Kholm Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghan caravan