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Getting lost in downtown Herat
Womens rights? Herat, Afghanistan - Afghanistan
Womens rights? Herat,
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Herat is an amazingly friendly town. The third-biggest in the country, but still nothing but a big colourful village.

Cars are less common than in Iran and instead donkeys and carts carry the load. Women are completely veiled in their "burqa", and most of the men still look like reincarnations of Osama bin Laden.

Anyone close to Afghanistan should try going to Herat, however, single women are adviced to pick up a "fake husband" before they enter. Sexual discrimination is extremely obvious in Afghanistan.

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  • Address: Herat, old town
  • Directions: Just fool around
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    Bamiyan Buddhas - what's left of it
    They used to be the tallest standing Buddhas in the world, carved off a rock face and thousands of years old -- until the Taliban decided that they were images of pagan worship and blew them up to bits. A monumental disgrace, and complete disregard to one's heritage. We went to film the site after the destruction, boulders and rocks from the statues still strewn all over the ground.

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  • Address: Bamiyan
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    Ruins and Rubbles
    Well, it is not an activity; it is a place which is definitely worthy of your visit. Why should we visit Afghanistan? There is no supermarket, no department store, no night clubs and you almost can find nothing with the symbol of so-called ¡°modernity¡±. Therefore, the reason for your visit here must be something special. For me, this must-seen place is located in the western part of the city, where used to be Kabul¡¯s Wang Fu Jing street (one of the most renowned business center in Beijing) but later fell to become the frontier between the followers of Masud and Hikmatiyar in the 1990s¡¯. Naturally, nothing was left but the ruins and rubbles. I was totally shocked when I saw what the war has brought upon the city and the people. If you want to have a look at of the real Kabul, you must go there. ----Milewang Street.

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  • Address: Tell the driver to Milewang Street
  • Directions: Western part of the city
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    BUZKASHI
    One thing you may try to see is the local game, the Buzkashi....

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    U should see the Baminyan's...
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  • U should see the Baminyan's destroyed Budha sculptures, travell on the Encumen mountains and make shoppinh in Kabul chicken street.

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    If Afghanistan ever stabilizes...
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  • If Afghanistan ever stabilizes and comes out of its Taleban-imposed Dark Age, you must include the lakes of Band-i-Amir on your itinerary. It's a truly magical place.

    Photo: Two of the five lakes at Band-i-Amir

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