Another awesome place that is not how it was when I saw it. I saw the Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan, a couple of decades or so before they were destroyed by the Taliban, and climbed up via the caves and galleries inside the cliff to the head of one of them. Afghanistan was generally awesome and I'm very, very glad I visited it, at what was probably about the last moment when this was still feasible (I was there doing work-related thing, but it was still the days of the hippy overland trail*) before the USSR invaded.
I saw that some Extreme Tourist Operator was recently offering trips to the spectacular Band-i-Amir lakes (which I also visited) but I think that probably falls into the category from which travel insurance operators back away carefully.
*This was just about coming to an end as a result of events in Iran which made that kind of overland travel significantly dangerous.
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Date: 2013-08-07 02:15 pm (UTC)I saw the Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan, a couple of decades or so before they were destroyed by the Taliban, and climbed up via the caves and galleries inside the cliff to the head of one of them.
Afghanistan was generally awesome and I'm very, very glad I visited it, at what was probably about the last moment when this was still feasible (I was there doing work-related thing, but it was still the days of the hippy overland trail*) before the USSR invaded.
I saw that some Extreme Tourist Operator was recently offering trips to the spectacular Band-i-Amir lakes (which I also visited) but I think that probably falls into the category from which travel insurance operators back away carefully.
*This was just about coming to an end as a result of events in Iran which made that kind of overland travel significantly dangerous.