More Photos from Afghanistan

1 October 2007 afaiz

Bamiyan

More Photos	The Bamiyan Cliffs	Bamiyan
In a tourist shop	Genghis Khan killed here	Girls go to school
Girls go to school	In a tourist shop	Layers of Afghanistan as seen from Bamiyan Airport
Mud Huts and Satellite Dishes	Mud Huts and Satellite Dishes	One of the emptied Buddhas
Reporting from Bamiyan	Roof of Bamiyan Hotel	Shopping
The Bamiyan Cliffs	Town of Bamiyan	Town of Bamiyan

Bamiyan Buddhas

Ahmad looking up at 2nd Buddha	Cataloging debris	Caves
Children who live in the cliff caves	Each white rock is where a land mine once was	From temple atop Buddha
Scenes from temples	Scenes from within the temples	Spent mortar shells used to destroy Buddhas
Spent mortar shells	Steps inside the cliffs to the temples	Sunset
The largest of the Buddhas - Papa	UNESCO is cataloguing Buddha debris	UNESCO sign

Clay Aiken in Bamiyan

Clay Aiken was on my UN flight	Clay Aiken on UN fact finding mission	Clay Aiken playing with local kids for UN photo shoot
Clay Aiken playing with local kids for UN photo shoot

Bamiyan C.R.C.

Nejabat, Faiz and driver	A curious boy	Ahmad with teachers and parents
Ahmad	Chasing the goat	Faiz at lunch
Flying a kite	Girls proudly display their sibling and pet	Homework
A shop in the middle of nowhere	A shop in the middle of nowhere	Little girl with her dad
Mom signs memo with teacher	Mom signs memo with teacher	Mom talks to teacher
Mom with teacher	Nejabat having lunch	Nejabat with teachers talks to parent
Teacher with parent	Teacher Zahra	Teachers
Teachers	Teachers	Teachers
Teachers	Teachers	Teachers talk to Dad
Teachers walk through sand cliffs	Village in the sandstone cliffs	Water gatherer

Bamiyan Drought

A creek once ran under that bridge	Ahmad Safi and Faiz	Ahmad with villagers
Boy with Dad	Boy with Dad	Boy
Carrying water	Cattle live with the family	Collecting water
Collecting water	Collecting water	Cow patties heat for Winter
Dry hills	Dying vegetation	Flags mark the dead on a family compound
Flags mark the dead	Gathering water	Local dress
Man	Man	Mud huts and satellite dishes
Talking to drought-affected villagers	Those hills were once covered with vegetation	Village
Woman

Kabul

Carrying a satellite dish	Hindu Kush Mountains	Kabul from the sky
Kabul from the sky	Kabul from the sky	Kabul shop
Kabul street	Kabul street	Kabul UN Airport
Two sides of Kabul

Kabul Housing

Boy with toy car	Building a home	Collecting water - Kabul
Family portrait	Inside a home	Kabul - Housing Project
Kabul - Shura, Village Council	Kabul - Shura, Village Council	Kids
Local store	Making clay	Man
Prayer beads	Rose	Typical alley
Village councillor with prayer beads	Woman	Women

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