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French bakery offers future to Afghan minority children

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

French owners Jacques and Ariane Hiriart built Le Pelican cafe from scratch to educate children from Afghanistan's ethnic Hazara community...

Destinations: Kabul | Afghanistan
Topics: Food | People | War & Conflict
Himalayas, Leh

Southern-East Asia and Central Asia experience in photographs

Olga Mo - peremeny [55]

RADIOTRAVEL is the big long-distance and long-term journey. We travel in countries of Southern-East Asia and Central Asia. Aim of this project - creation of online blog-book. During the journey we...

Destinations: Karnataka | Himalayas | Ko Tao | Mumbai | Hoi An | Guilin | Himachal Pradesh | Kathmandu | Hangzhou | Beijing | Bangkok | Kerala | Ninh Binh | Nepal | Hanoi | Vietnam | New Delhi | Varanasi | India | Ladakh | Zhejiang | China | Port Blair | Thailand | Kochi(India) | Goa
Topics: Travel | People | Photography | Traditions | Food
Osama

Film Review: Osama

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Inspired by a newspaper article, director Siddiq Barmak tells the story of a twelve-year-old Afghani girl who must disguise herself as a boy so that she can go out into the streets of Taliban-ruled...

Destinations: Afghanistan
Topics: People | Religion | War & Conflict
A waterfall across the path through Tiger Leaping Gorge

Last Days of the Tiger Leaping Gorge?

Adam Bray - kanzis_slave [1,617]

Deep in Yunnan Province, at the foot of the Himalayas, the Yangtze River (here known as the Yellow Sands), carves the deepest gorge in the world between Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (5,596m) and Haba...

Destinations: Yunnan | Himalayas | Tibet | Lijiang River | China | Yangtze River
Topics: Travel | National Parks | Adventure | Animals | Ecotourism | Culture | People | Sports | Nature | Architecture
Prof. Yin doing what he loves most

Ecotourism in Sichuan

satcha smith - satcha [130]

Dr. Yin Kaipu of the Chengdu Institute of Biology has just returned from another trip to the Hengduan Mountains north of Chengdu and is bubbling with excitement. His dreams of an ecotourism hiking...

Destinations: Himalayas | China | Sichuan | Chengdu
Topics: Culture | National Parks | Adventure | People | Nature | Ecotourism
Mural for the Oasis Salon in Kabul.

Empowering Afghanistan's Women One Haircut at a Time

Jennifer Huber - QKGirl [103]

Hope exists in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan. American Deborah Rodriguez oversees the Kabul Beauty School and Oasis Salon in efforts to educate and empower a handful of Afghanistan's women one haircut at a time.

Destinations: Kabul | Afghanistan
Topics: People | Women & Travel
Quandi-gul

Afghan Hospitality

Susan Hall - susanhall [75]

While in Kabul, Afghanistan a friend Ellen and I frequently walked around the Demazang District neighborhood where our guesthouse was located. One afternoon as we paused to photograph a small boy...

Destinations: Afghanistan
Topics: Travel | People | Photography | Women & Travel

Valentine's Day in Kabul

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

Love is tough in Afghanistan...

Destinations: Kabul | Afghanistan
Topics: People
Medical escorts at work.

Medical Escorts: Always Intense

Joshua Samuel Brown - jbrown [10,407]

Whether on business or pleasure the wise traveler to exotic lands should prepare for all conceivable contingencies; fortune, after all, favors the prepared. But dame fate is never a more capricious...

Destinations: Kabul | Afghanistan
Topics: Travel | People | Adventure | Working Abroad | War & Conflict
Salesgirl Salma Salat shows one of the outfits for sale at her shop in the Women's Bazaar or Bazaar-e-Zanana in Kabul.

Kabul shopping

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

KABUL, Feb 17, 2004 - With their all-enveloping blue burqas thrown back from their faces, the three women shoppers laugh as they examine the sexy lingerie on sale at a west Kabul boutique, enjoying...

Destinations: Kabul | Afghanistan
Topics: People | Shopping
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