Kabul |
View from Kabul Park Hotel, the peak in the background is the Hindu Kush mountain range, the western part of the Himalayas. The average elevation is 2700 meters, the highest peaks reach 7500 meters.
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Another view across the street, notice the sewer on the border of the street, crossing the street you have to jump over it.
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A colorful painted truck is waiting in front of the trafficlights. Thousand of lorries like this driving around in the whole country.
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| From Kabul to Kandahar |
Public transport in Kabul City.
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A flat landscape that has no green space shows only a lonely camel far away.
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A small village built with loam Bricks.
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Kandahar |
The southern city of Kandahar
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Kandahar
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Kandahar
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Kandahar area |
Kandahar
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Kandahar
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Kandahar Graveyard
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On the way from Kabul to Mazar i Sharif |
The national primary road network consists of a ring road connecting Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar i Sharif. Transportation by bus taxi and plane is possible.
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Two little dogs at a road toll station.
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Stopped here to pay Salang highway road toll.
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The Salang Pass hitting Mazar i Sharif |
View from inside de taxicab, entering the Salang tunnel at an altitude of 3363 meters having a length of 2.7 km and some galleries of 4.9 km. The Salang Tunnel links Kabul to the northern city of Mazar i Shariff.
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Salang Pass is located 122 km north of Kabul in the heart of the Hindu Kush Mountains.
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Taxi cab fitting snow chains. The Salang Tunnel without any lights or ventilation is the world's highest road tunnel and was built around 1960 in a joint collaboration by the Russians and Afghanistan.
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Salang Pass
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Salang Pass
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The hallowed city of Mazar-i-Shariff in the north of Afghanistan about 400 kilometers northwest of Kabul. Ali the cousin and son-in-law of Mohammed is buried in this Mosque.
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Mazar i Sharif |
Mazar-i-Sharif
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While Mazar i Sharif is still a peaceful place, in Kabul the Soviet occupation and the fighting has begon.
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Multicoloured work of art an Afghanistan lorry.
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For documentaries about Afghanistan's past we offer 1979 video of Mazar i Sharif, Kabul, Kandahar and Salang. These films include shoots of street life, village fair and buskashi. This old fashion amateur film is made using a Bell & Howell (no soundtrack) Super 8mm format Movie Camera with celluloid film material of Kodak's Super 8mm motion picture film. For a short video preview see top of this page.
Comments and Questions to the Mazar i Sharif 1979 Country Fair video or the pictures above are welcome and will be posted here. Contact us at video.afghanistan (at) gmail (dot) com.
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