26 Jan 2011 | 3 comments » Bamyan
Band-e Amir was to become Afghanistan’s first national park in the 1960s, but due to the instability of the Kabul government at the time, this did not happen. In 2008, Band-e Amir was finally declared Afghanistan’s first national park. But Hazaras who are the main inhabitants had severely been persecuted, in August 1998, the Taliban massacred approximately 4,000 Hazara in Mazara-e-Sharif; this massacre was followed by another the next month when the Taliban killed another 500 Hazara in Bamiyan.
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30 Dec 2010 | no comments » Bamyan
There are many places like this in Afghanistan to be seen. It reminds me the fall of 2007 in which i spent the the entire day wandering around and just taking picture of everything. I took this picture and then ascend to the top of the hill and stopped there to look back down the breathtaking scenery for admiring its beauty. I still remember how much I loved to ramble through the fields, lanes, lakes and small streams stretching down the villages in Bamiyan.
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15 Aug 2010 | no comments » Bamyan, historical
It is taken below the snowy peaks the mountains of Hindu Kush appear bare, stony and poor in vegetation. It was hard to get there, it has tough winter, the temperature can be expected to drop 25/30 degrees below 0°C throughout the winter season. All roads are getting closed approximately up to 4 months. If there are some health problems, people have no choice just to be lucky not to die.
20 May 2010 | 1 comment » Bamyan, Children
Many of the impoverished families living in the caves say they are too poor to live anywhere else even though the government insists that they are doing damage to an the area, near the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, which is a rare archaeological site. All are refugees who fled areas of fighting during the Taliban era, and have now returned from the other parts of Afghanistan. The cave dwellers are all Hazara, who are religiously and ethnically distinct and survivors of intense persecution by the Taliban.
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