Welcome to Kabul Caravan: An Online Travel Guide to Afghanistan
Welcome to Kabul Caravan: An Online Travel Guide to Afghanistan
Welcome to Kabul Caravan: An Online Travel Guide to Afghanistan
”Travelers, empire builders, archaeologists, spies, researchers, traders, diplomats, teachers, and seekers of spiritual or drug-induced fulfilment have flocked to Afghanistan whenever conditions have allowed. Many of these visitors jotted down memoirs and wrote books, in many languages, from the earliest historical period of the Greeks and Romans to the Chinese, Arabs, British, Russians and French. The many rich archaeological sites throughout the country attest both to its position as a crossroads of culture and to its hospitality to diversity and contemplation… Towns such as Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Balkh resound through history as remote and slightly dangerous places.”
- Ralph H. Magnus and Eden Naby, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid
Should you go to Afghanistan?
“Watching the spectacle from my hotel room balcony, the prospect of peace in a country as beautiful and historic as Afghanistan began to sink in. There were excursions to plan, to the Bamiyan Buddhas and the blue lakes of Band-e Amir, and picnics at which Tariq and I would consume nothing but fresh fruit and swim in the invigorating rivers. There were alpine meadows to cross in Badakshan, all the way through the Wakhan Corridor to China, and carpet shopping in Mazar-e Sharif, where the chaikhanas looked like rug shops.”
- Christopher Kremmer, The Carpet Wars
Welcome to Kabul Caravan: An Online Travel Guide to Afghanistan
”Travelers, empire builders, archaeologists, spies, researchers, traders, diplomats, teachers, and seekers of spiritual or drug-induced fulfilment have flocked to Afghanistan whenever conditions have allowed. Many of these visitors jotted down memoirs and wrote books, in many languages, from the earliest historical period of the Greeks and Romans to the Chinese, Arabs, British, Russians and French. The many rich archaeological sites throughout the country attest both to its position as a crossroads of culture and to its hospitality to diversity and contemplation… Towns such as Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Balkh resound through history as remote and slightly dangerous places.”
- Ralph H. Magnus and Eden Naby, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid
Should you go to Afghanistan?
“Watching the spectacle from my hotel room balcony, the prospect of peace in a country as beautiful and historic as Afghanistan began to sink in. There were excursions to plan, to the Bamiyan Buddhas and the blue lakes of Band-e Amir, and picnics at which Tariq and I would consume nothing but fresh fruit and swim in the invigorating rivers. There were alpine meadows to cross in Badakshan, all the way through the Wakhan Corridor to China, and carpet shopping in Mazar-e Sharif, where the chaikhanas looked like rug shops.”
- Christopher Kremmer, The Carpet Wars
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