Showing posts with label balkh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balkh. Show all posts
Monday, 30 September 2013
That awkward moment when...
That awkward moment when... The taxi driver decides to attempt going OVER a huge earthen barricade in the middle of the road. *slaps head* Just outside the ancient city of Balkh.
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Our police escort. On an ancient city wall.
We visited the ruins of the 5,000 year old city of Balkh today (with the help of our most trusted police dude) which at one time was the epicenter of Zoroastianism, a Hellenistic empire (Greek Bactria), Buddhism, and later Islam. The oldest mosque in Afghanistan is close to these fortress walls the guard is standing on.
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