Travel Tips

the buddahs were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, but the government of Japan and UNESCO are doing some reconstruction and preservation work to save the scupture shells and the buddah fragments.

In a spec of a town in the middle of nowhere, this brightly smiling and dressed girl awaits for the UN World Food Programme and its implementing partner, a local Non-Gov't Organization, to finish the construction of her school.

Behind the mud brick wall of our compound, nestled in the central highland of Afghanistan, the UN World Food Programme works to improve the food security of the area and improve the livelihoods of the hungry poor. This is where I work and live. Its been wonderful so far.

Whenever I go canyon or mountain hiking, I often I take 'bagban' (which means, gardener, in the local language Dari) -his real name is AminAllah. What is fantastic is that Amin can point out all the various herbs and flowers and explain their uses and cures. Pictured here is a bush whose flowers can be eaten if one gets sunburned and feels feverish.

This is a small village 10 Km east of Bamiyan town - showing here, women weeding the wheat field and the mosque in the background, rocky hills surround the scene